EASY MONEY
Monopoly, patented in 1935 by Parker Brothers, is the board game that taught generations of players how to be gleefully avaricious, property-owning, ruthless capitalists. Yet, in a great historic irony, Monopoly descended from 1904’s The Landlord’s Game, which was intended to show that owning property was parasitic and that landlords exploited the poor. That game’s inventor, Elizabeth Magie, wrote: “It is a practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences.”
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