Monopoly after 50 years

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Monopoly

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Almost fifty years ago in 1935, on October 5, the game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company. I played it late in the forties when my family would spend hours in the evenings, sometimes into the early morning hours because nobody wanted to give up, give in or give out. Now, forty years after I played the game, I discover it had a dark and sinister side (YouTube link below).      

 

In a nut-shell, American anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie created a game she hoped would explain the single-tax theory of Henry George. It was intended as an educational tool, to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. She took out a patent in 1904. Her game, The Landlord's Game, was self-published, beginning in 1906. It all went wrong, in 1935.       

        

        

        

        

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Lizzie Magie        

         

        

Net links:        

        

The Guardian ~  

   The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins  

Harvard Business Review ~ 

   Everything I Know About Business I Learned from Monopoly         

New Yorker ~ 

   How Monopoly Became America’s Cruellest Board Game         

 

YouTube links:        

        

How to play Monopoly (2023 Rules)        

PBS ~  

   Ruthless: Monopoly's Secrect History | Chapter 1 (American Experience)    

        

         

        

        

        

        

         

        

         

        

Styrous® ~ Sunday, November 5, 2023                  

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