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, and that popularity spread throughout the next three decades; it eventually caught on with a community of Quakers in 1930s Atlanta, who changed its name

Lizzie was a descendant of Scottish immigrants. She had a strong work ethic. She was unmarried. Even more unusual, however, was the fact that she was the head of her household. Completely on her own, she had saved up for and bought her home, along with several acres of property.

The Irony that a man took the credit for inventing the game and made millions from it (she got $500 for her landlords game patent), its a sad financial injustice of the monopolisation of knowledge sharing, it was an unjust transition from the landlord's game to monopoly, this creative piece of hard work done by a woman seeking to educate about social injustice is not lost. On Polmont Community Hubs financial department, who are unpaid volunteers securing a community asset from what could have become a corporate takeover had it fallen into the monopoly's hands by financial ruin 

We at the hub are looking to design our very own Polmontopoly board, with community volunteers and future generations becoming the winners.  (how we show that is still in the planning) , but we aim to include community choices, participatory budgeting, Doughnut economics and volunteering rewards schemes. There are other versions of Monopoly out there that we aim to get ideas from,  like  

COOPERATIVE MONOPOLY

Cooperative Monopoly is a game that can be played with a standard monopoly set to understand the economic system we live in nowadays. By changing the rules of the Game, you can experience a transition from the standard competitive economy to a different one based on cooperation