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minus-squareMadison420linkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 days agoYou joke but that’s how original Monopoly was. A socialist lady made it as an anticapitalist game and parkers Bros stole it and changed it to pro capitalism because she didn’t maintain rights.
minus-squareTheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoAFAIK Darrow played it, liked the game and then plagiarised it. Parker did buy the rights from Magie after the fact. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord’s_Game After reading that, I’m more confused than ever. Anti-Monopoly is a variation that maintains the competition good, monopoly bad theme.
You joke but that’s how original Monopoly was. A socialist lady made it as an anticapitalist game and parkers Bros stole it and changed it to pro capitalism because she didn’t maintain rights.
AFAIK Darrow played it, liked the game and then plagiarised it. Parker did buy the rights from Magie after the fact.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord’s_Game
After reading that, I’m more confused than ever.
Anti-Monopoly is a variation that maintains the competition good, monopoly bad theme.