Monopoly: Who owns the world?
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Whenever I hear "Monopoly" it reminds of it's origin story and the ability of some to re-write history;
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The board game Monopoly has its origin in the early 20th century. The earliest known version, known as The Landlord's Game, was designed by an American, Elizabeth Magie, and first patented in 1904 but existed as early as 1902.[1][2] Magie, a follower of Henry George, originally intended The Landlord's Game to illustrate the economic consequences of Ricardo's Law of economic rent and the Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value taxation.[3] A series of board games was developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land. By 1933, a board game had been created much like the modern version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its related companies through the rest of the 20th century, and into the 21st. Several people, mostly in the midwestern United States and near the East Coast of the United States, contributed to design and evolution.
By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore; it was printed in the game's instructions for many years,[4] in a 1974 book devoted to Monopoly,[5] and was cited in a general book about toys as recently as 2007.[6][7] Even a guide to family games published for Reader's Digest in 2003 gave credit only to Darrow and none to Elizabeth Magie, erroneously stating that Magie's original game was created in the 19th century, and not acknowledging any of the game's development between Magie's creation of the game, and the eventual publication by Parker Brothers.[8]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly
Nothing surprising here. This happens when people are beholden to and worship unfettered capitalism. Without healthy boundaries and regulations and fair taxation corporations grow bigger and bigger to the point where they stifle every smaller upstart and smaller players. At that points it's only marginal moving back and forth of tiny market share percentages until the once or twice per decade mega merger, at which point the 5 turn into 4 at the top or so. They all rampantly engage in illegal oligopolistic behavior, secret pricing agreements and division of territory. All to the detriment of consumers. Have you noticed how almost every single product or service turns to shit as corporations squeeze ever higher profit margins out of products. This is the boring and shitty world we are living in, driving by strip malls, mcd, Starbucks, home depot, Walmart and then all over again and again. It produces shit people, with shit education, shit brains, shit health, and shit attitudes. This is the world we currently live in. Only a revolution with LOTS of blood in the streets will free us from this curse and pushing the reset buttons will give us a fighting chance of long term survival. While I get the antagonism of states like Texas towards climate change folks, going in the exact opposite direction and shitting on and spitting into the face of our planet is an even worse solution. Anyone who does not understand this is simply too stupid and uneducated in their brains and is not worth talking to...
Hello,
If you can't beat them, join them. Get Rich.
If you can't beat them, join them. Get Rich.
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He has some very good points;
but completely wrong start /Pepsi, Coke are nowhere near owning the beverage market.
Also interesting a WSJ chart now shows their bottled water sales bigger than thier sugar water.LOL
A wrong start\wrong title like that ruins any theory. like wrong start on buttons on a banker vest or my vest or any vest. He is right on the huge % the big funds mutual funds control manage; but capitalism is not a limited pie, anyone can start a new bakery.
Or like pioneer Woman start a new cookbook /cook show..............................
