Monday, July 19, 2021

How Monopoly Was Invented to Demonstrate the Evils of Capitalism — Kate Raworth

The game’s little-known inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would no doubt have made herself go directly to jail if she’d lived to know just how influential today’s twisted version of her game has turned out to be. Why? Because it encourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those she intended to champion.
Naked Capitalism
How Monopoly Was Invented to Demonstrate the Evils of Capitalism
Kate Raworth, senior visiting research associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and senior associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

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