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The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

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The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

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schmorp@slrpnk.net to Board Games@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 months ago

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The story of how a homemade, anti-capitalist game created by a woman becomes a mass-produced uber-capitalist game that profited a man.

Rather relevant. I had no idea ‘Monopoly’ had an anti-capitalist predecessor.

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Good idea, ‘rickety row’ sounds like a good recipe against gentrification

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