It's was a timely coincidence to see a new video on Bloomberg about the inspiration behind the boardgame played by generations while frequent readers of this site might have been curious about the reason your MesaZona blogger featured the game Mormonopoly so many times about what could be a hyper-local update of the generations-old land development schemes here in Arizona.
Monopoly was designed to teach the 99% about Income Equality.
It's an American classic of working-class ingenuity that The Great Depression helped launch, invented by a 'leftwing feminist". Yikes!
After The Great Recession income, the Upper 1% is doing much better.
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Here's a True Confession:
Nearly everything your MesaZona blogger knows about the Utah-version is from information on The Bare Record of Truth
MORMONOPOLY: Buying The New Zion One Property At A Time
Monday, March 10, 2014
is from this source:
"All of us are very familiar with the non-profit side of the Church with the buildings of Temples, churches, and the missionary program, but most are not familiar with the LDS Church for-profit companies. I thought it might be good to have fun playing a game with some of the properties that the Church owns. These are investment properties and companies that are income-producing assets.
. . . Many might be surprised to know that the LDS church is the largest non-governmental land owner in the US. . . In a recent fireside at our stake, a Church employee spoke and shared with us that the Church builds more square footage in United States than Walmart. . .
Just like here in Mesa Property Reserve Inc., a real-estate holding company owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has bought up a number of parcels and homes and properties in The Mesa Temple Area at the SEC of Main Street and Mesa Drive . . .
NO FINANCIAL DETAILS WERE EVER DISCLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
What is witness of what the writer of the blog Bare Truth had a revelation about:
"While developing land to subdivide into home lots is one thing, when I learned that the Church has land with plans to develop an entire new city, I was really surprised. . . "
For those that are interested, here is a partial list of some of the other LDS for-profit companies and property holdings from the BareTruth blog - added to ranches, desert lands and livestock holding companies:
Deseret Management Corporation
Property Reserve, Inc.
Suburban Land Reserve, Inc
Zion Public Finance Group
Deseret Trust Company
LDS Family Services
Property Reserves Inc. (PRI)
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