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I have a thought that the western world has Venture Capitalists because they didn't understand that economics got hacked...
By the board game Monopoly
Ironic really considering it started as a game created by a woman to teach people about how rent, taxation and privilege worked
By the board game Monopoly
Ironic really considering it started as a game created by a woman to teach people about how rent, taxation and privilege worked
Created by Elizabeth Magie it was called The Landlord's Game and was intended to show the economic consequences of economic privilege and land taxation
Fast forward to the 1930s and Monopoly became a game where the aim is to make all the money and make everyone else bankrupt
Fast forward to the 1930s and Monopoly became a game where the aim is to make all the money and make everyone else bankrupt
In fact, by the 1970s, the fiction was created that the game was made by a man called Charles Darrow and this was carried through in the game and in texts to the 21st century
Not only did we forget the origins, we even forgot the original creator was a woman #notSurprising
Not only did we forget the origins, we even forgot the original creator was a woman #notSurprising
