Why the context of a game matters:
(note - this the story of Monopoly. Lizzie Maggie's Landlord Game was designed to show monopolies are bad. Charles Darrow stole the game, proposed it as Monopoly to Parker Brothers, but flipped the goal to glorify bankrupting everyone else.)

..and perhaps, having decades of people playing Monopoly and striving to be the winner by bankrupting everyone else has had an impact on today's society...