I’ve been thinking about the difference between a scarcity mindset and an abundance mindset lately. A scarcity mindset sees wealth as limited. If someone becomes wealthy, then someone else must have lost. If someone succeeds, someone else must have been exploited. If someone wins, someone else must lose. And when people truly internalize that worldview, it naturally creates resentment toward successful people. Their gain feels like your loss. Ironically, greed itself often grows out of scarcity thinking: the fear that there is not enough to go around. - Not enough money. - Not enough opportunity. - Not enough security. - Not enough success. But an abundance mindset starts from a completely different premise: Human beings can create value. - A farmer creates food. - An engineer creates technology. - A teacher creates understanding. - An entrepreneur creates systems that improve people’s lives. A business can create opportunities, jobs, solutions, convenience, efficiency, knowledge, and growth that simply did not exist before. And people with an abundance mindset tend to focus less on taking wealth… and more on creating value. That’s why many genuinely successful people become builders, investors, mentors, philanthropists, employers, innovators, and creators. They see wealth not merely as something to possess — but as something that can expand through creativity, discipline, cooperation, and contribution. So coming back to the original question: Do you think Monopoly teaches people a healthy understanding of wealth… or does it teach scarcity, greed, and extraction?