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Related: About this forumThe real origins of Monopoly: created by feminist Lizzie Magie
Story hereThe story goes that Charles Darrow was the first to ever think up the model of the board game Monopoly.
Think again.
From the article:
Or is it? I spent five years researching the games history for my new book, The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the Worlds Favorite Board Game, and found that Monopolys story began decades earlier, with an all-but-forgotten woman named Lizzie Magie, an artist, writer, feminist and inventor.
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The real origins of Monopoly: created by feminist Lizzie Magie (Original Post)
shenmue
Dec 2014
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malthaussen
(17,841 posts)1. Yep, and it was intended to show that unregulated capitalism is fatal
Which only goes to show, the power structure can assimilate anything if they try.
-- Mal
ismnotwasm
(42,509 posts)2. I had no idea on that one
Very cool
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)3. Interesting
But Disneys Despicable Me 2? Uh, no that's Universal.
starroute
(12,977 posts)4. File this along with the about-to-open movie, Big Eyes
The women always get ripped off, don't they?