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Monopoly is designed to be unbalanced on purpose. It's mostly derived from the Landlord's Game that was made to be a political education tool about the accumulation of land and real estate in a few private hands.
It's not the imbalance that's the problem. It's the glacial pace and the lack of meaningful decision points.
Again, that's part of the point.
It can be played quicker. Players don't get money for passing go. That's socialism don'tcha know? And if you end up in jail it's for twice the turns as there are players. A few tweaks here and there make the game quicker and way more unfair, hammering home the point that the player who gets a lucky roll first will dominate the other players.
That doesn't make it a good game. They don't give it away for free at Economics classes, it's sold worldwide by Hasbro!
In a really cynical turn of events, Hasbro (or whatever company came before) ripped of the woman who made The Landlord's Game to make monopoly and made billions in the process.
The irony is too damn high.
That sucks. But the original point was it's a bad game. The fact that it's an unethical, bad game doesn't change that.