Elizabeth Magie’s 1904 board design. Source and Credit. Click for full size.
Behind the design: Meet the woman behind Monopoly, the board game played by more than 1 billion people worldwide #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/XQlftCMT9d
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) May 18, 2018
It’s a right pity that Monopoly didn’t turn out the way Elizabeth Magie envisioned. Just goes to show that greed always wins. (I couldn’t get the twitter video to play; if you also have such problems, head to Required Reading, and scroll down to the bottom. That one works fine for me.
Factory workers, naturally, had no time for parlour games.
I imagine not. Even if they did, they’d be dreaming the greed dream, too.