It was meant to illustrate the dangers of unchecked capitalism.
I mean, yeah, but also no. It was anti-land lord and was advocating Georgism and a land value tax. Georgism includes corporations as victims to land lord hoarding and doesn’t criticize capitalism, per se.
Monopoly was originally called “The Landlord’s Game” and it was invented by a woman in 1903.
It was meant to illustrate the dangers of unchecked capitalism.
Then it was stolen by a man and turned into the game we know today.
I mean, yeah, but also no. It was anti-land lord and was advocating Georgism and a land value tax. Georgism includes corporations as victims to land lord hoarding and doesn’t criticize capitalism, per se.
This is the boardgame version of the Steve Buscemi firefighter fact lol
Did you know that before chewbaca was cast in star wars, he was a lab test consultant for Loreal
Did you know that in that scene in that movie were the guy kicked that thing he actually broke his toe?
It’s a fascinating story that’s worth a deeper dive if you’re interested.
I mean yeah it was during the 9/11 too!
And the original board was waaaay larger than what we have today EDIT: what happened to lemmy world servers? my comment was registered very quickly
They’re beta testing v1.0 but I don’t know if that affects anything