It's an annoying and stupid game. It's all about being a landlord. One or two players are lucky and they are the only ones having a good time. The rest of the players are spending their time losing.
"Well ackshually, Monopoly was originally called 'The Landlord Game' and was all about how landlording was bad" — I don't care, you're still spending an evening pretending to be a landlord to your loved ones. The game is completely unenjoyable because it emulates capitalism too well.
Fuck off with competitive boardgames. Give me games that are merely facilitating having fun and being social and where only nerds keep score, like charades or pictionary .
Fun fact right. If you really, really trust one of the other players you can both have a pact to buy up to one and no more of each colour and refuse to sell under any circumstance.
That way you can drag the game out into a pointlessly long and boring endevour for everyone around the table making sure no one ever brings up playing it again.