First, if it was meant to teach the evils of capitalism it has failed in many levels, as the article illustrates. Even if you were to play with the amended rules, it'd be moot; nobody cares about Georgist socialism anymore.
As a board game: there are literally hundreds of games better than Monopoly. Even we restrict ourselves to so-called "family" games. If there's something you like about Monopoly, I can assure you can find a better game that has that something but it's better designed:
https://boardgamegeek.com/familygames/browse/boardgame?sort=...
Many will be simpler and shorter too. Of course, you might like or dislike a particular game in that set, but consider that Monopoly is ranked at 1583 in the family category. There's no excuse to play Monopoly unless one somehow has managed to stay unaware of the existence of all these other games.