I believe I can be confident in saying that in some point in your life the board game Monopoly was probably in your house. Parker Brothers first put out the game in 1935 of which the Great Depression was still being felt in our nation. The game is all about acquiring wealth while driving your opponents to bankruptcy.
But the origin of Monopoly goes back further than that, started as the Landlord’s Game by Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips, it was designed to point out the problems associated with private monopolies. The Monopolists author Mary Pilon explained, “The Landlord’s Game came with two sets of rules. An anti-monopolist set in which all were rewarded when wealth was created, and a monopolist set in which the goal was to create monopolies and crush opponents. It was meant as a teaching tool.”
But Magie Philips never received credit for her game. Charles Darrow created his own version which sort of resembles today’s game of Monopoly. This copyright he sold to Parker Brothers for $7,000 and residuals.
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