Thanks Marc, for the tip! A very interesting link indeed - points how monopoly collapse into itself, monopolising other people's efforts, and by connection, properties..
On a personal level, I never actually "got" the idea/motivation of the game, why would one want to monoplise? Seems an arbitrary requirement by the game. Indeed, now that the history of the game is mentioned, it looks like the initial ideas, regardless of politics, were more interesting on conceptual and desire/urge levels - at least for me. I wonder if anyone else experience similar disinterested feelings in playing monopoly..? Cheers and all the best! Aharon xx > Monopoly was stolen from socialist land-reformers and perverted. > > Cory Doctorow. > > Christopher Ketcham's beautifully written Harper's feature on the > history of Monopoly, "Monopoly Is Theft," traces the idealistic > socialist land-reformers who created the game and modified it over > decades, and the unscrupulous "inventor" who claimed to have created it > and sold it to Parker Brothers. Monopoly's forerunner was "The > Landlord's Game," created by Lizzie Magie, inspired by Henry George, who > believed in the abolition of land-ownership and created a powerful > movement to make this a reality. Many of George's devotees played The > Landlord's Game, learning about the evils of real-estate and rentiers, > and they modified the rules together, creating the game as we know it, > changing its name to "monopoly" (all lower-case). Then "an unemployed > steam-radiator repairman and part-time dog walker from Philadelphia > named Charles Darrow" copied it, patented it, and sold it to Parker > Brothers. The rest is history. > > http://boingboing.net/2012/11/05/monopoly-was-stolen-and-perver.html > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
