The Bizarre Invention of Monopoly 🎩

Morning Monopolists!

The original Monopoly game–

Was ACTUALLY an ANTI monopoly game..

There’s spaces for the absolute necessity clothing:

Shelter:

Food:

Beggarman’s Court:

And my fav – The Slambang Trolley:

It’s called The Landlord’s Game

It’s a crazy story..

So, 1903.

We’ve got this lady Lizzie Magie:

Why Liz?

I mean, makes sense!

At the time, the US is OBSESSED with monopolies.

We’ve got railroad tycoons:

Banking dudes:

Oil barons:

Which, creates a problem!

Normal people are getting CRUSHED.

No no, like economically

So Liz has an idea!

She’ll make a board game to PROVE that greed sucks.

It’ll have properties you buy, rent you collect, and players going bankrupt.

And it starts spreading through colleges and activist groups..

But this dude Charles Darrow shows up and notices players don’t get the anti monopoly thing at all..

they LOVE THE FANTASY OF MONEY!!

So he cleans the game up. He adds dazzling names like Park Place, Pacific Ave, And Marvin Gardens:

Markets it as a rags-to-riches game, anddd now it’s the Monopoly we play!

Stay Monopolized,
Henry & Dylan 🌈

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The bizarre invention of Monopoly..