Most of us have played the best selling board game Monopoly. And we have learned that there’s always one winner with the most hotels who “destroys” the other players. In that sense Monopoly is an ultimate lesson in modern capitalism. However, the woman who invented the game in 1904 had a very different message on her mind. She created two different sets of rules for the game to make people experience how different approaches to property ownership can lead to vastly different social outcomes. A short and fascinating historic analysis of this well-known game.
Fair play: Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism
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