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William Baumgartner's avatar

It's weird how a game originally designed to warn of the dangers of capitalism evolved into a celebration of capitalism, predatory vulture capitalism at that. Actually, maybe it's not so weird. Predictable, really.

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MacFinnian Aisling Fíodóir's avatar

Fun Fact: did you know the phase ‘pull yourself up by your boot straps’ was originally associated with doing an impossible task.

There’s no possible way for one to pull themselves up by their boot straps so it’s interesting that this would be how they represented the middle class. 🧐

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