The Sleight Doctor 🃏@Lana It's worth noting in this context that Monopoly was based on The Landlord's Game, patented in 1904 by fiction writer and poet, engineer, stage actress and outspoken activist for the feminist movement, Elizabeth Magie.
Magie was a fierce abolitionist and proponent of social justice for African-Americans, and her game - based on the teachings of progressive era economist Henry George - was meant to illustrate the negative effects of land monopolies.
The original rules were anti-capitalist.
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