Polmontopoly
Polmontopoly Monopoly evolved from earlier anti-capitalist roots, notably The Landlord's Game (1903) by Elizabeth Magie, known to her friends as Lizzie, the problems of the new century were so vast, the income inequalities so massive and the monopolists so mighty that it seemed impossible that an unknown woman working as a stenographer stood a chance at easing society’s ills with something as trivial as a board game. But she believed in the Georgist paradigm, which seeks solutions to social and ecological problems based on principles of land rights and public finance that attempt to integrate economic efficiency with social justice, Night after night, after her work at her office was done, Lizzie sat in her home, drawing and redrawing, thinking and rethinking. It was the early 1900s, and she wanted her board game to reflect her progressive political views – that was the whole point of it. The game became popular with left-wing intellectuals and on college campuses, an...