I never liked playing the board game, Monopoly, because the premise seemed so contrived and downright contrary to a country that promoted itself as land of freedom and liberty. Why, I thought, does a player have to pay someone money — fake or not — for merely landing on another’s property? This wouldn’t happen in real life; well, at least that is what I thought.
In fact, the price for merely stepping onto someone’s land is higher, much higher, than forfeiting a couple of valueless pieces of Monopoly currency, as we have witnessed over the course of the last week.