I have shared your thoughts here, and told people this: in the game of Monopoly, there is ultimately only one winner. Right before people start to drop out, the other players barter and leverage simply to prolong the game, but ultimately it is scheming and back stabbing, because there can only be one winner in the game. We're there. Bezos won. Time to reset the board, and maybe change the rules.

Because you're dead right, every thing is owned. Even if your mortgage is paid off, you keep paying the taxes or the state takes your home. Our 401Ks are being used to purchases homes, so even if the market crashes and wipes out your 401K, the bank gets to keep having income through renting out the property that your money bought for the bank. The rent from bank owned properties isn't going back into people's 401Ks.

Trading pensions and gold watches for 401K was an end game scam to accelerate the elimination of players from the board.