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You DO NOT NEED to stack the game at the beginning for this to happen. This ALWAYS happens because of rent. The game is NOT fair, because it allows those with a slight and random money advantage to charge rent, which inevitably transfers all the wealth from the other players to the richest ones, who start to inflate rent prices and extract all the income of the poorer people as rent.
That's the original point of the game as designed by the Georgists. Unless you tax wealth or multiple property ownership heavily, or you heavily regulate rent, the wealthy use rent to extract income from the other people.
Are you suggesting we should add extra rules to the game until we find stability and sustainability for all players?
The full rules do exactly that. Read the Prosperity section of the rules of The Landlord's Game.
I'll try to remember to do that. It's been some time since I've played and even longer since I've read the rules. Thank you for that suggestion!
it would be interesting if all players can agree on rule changes during the game. nothing too game breaking, maybe whenever a card is drawn players can vote on enforcing it or removing it, so as inequality increases, players would be more interested in rules that hurt the richest.
Just get rid of the whole concept of rent altogether. It isn't needed.