![]() ![]() In 1903, Magie patented The Landlord’s Game, having apparently decided she didn’t have enough identifiers and needed to add “board game inventor.” It was pretty much the same as Monopoly today, designed intentionally to outrage and frustrate players and illustrate the dangers of, you know, monopolies. The real origins of Monopoly are in The Landlords Game a 1904 game designed by the local activist Elizabeth Magie to spread the principles of Georgism. Basically, a pretty cool lady by today’s standards, but she was lucky not to have been committed to an asylum in the late 19th century. The earliest known version, known as The Landlord's Game, was designed by Elizabeth Magie and first patented in 1904, but existed as early as 1902. The story of Monopoly begins with Elizabeth Magie, an unmarried artist, writer, poet, actor, comedian, and amateur engineer. The board game Monopoly has its origin in the early 20th century. It was entirely designed to teach you how bad capitalism is - until it became a victim of capitalism itself. It turns out, however, that that’s not just an unpleasant side effect but the whole point of the game. It takes forever, there’s only one dog, and it’s definitely destroyed more than a few relationships because it requires you to act like a ruthless capitalist (and also fight over who gets to be the dog). Monopoly has a unique place of dishonor in the family board game cupboard. ![]()
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