The real origins of Monopoly: created by feminist Lizzie Magie

[shenmue]

Story here

The story goes that Charles Darrow was the first to ever think up the model of the board game Monopoly.

Think again.

From the article:

Or is it? I spent five years researching the game’s history for my new book, The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game, and found that Monopoly’s story began decades earlier, with an all-but-forgotten woman named Lizzie Magie, an artist, writer, feminist and inventor.

[malthaussen]

1. Yep, and it was intended to show that unregulated capitalism is fatal

Which only goes to show, the power structure can assimilate anything if they try.

-- Mal

[ismnotwasm]

2. I had no idea on that one

Very cool

[abelenkpe]

3. Interesting

But Disney’s Despicable Me 2? Uh, no that's Universal.

[starroute]

4. File this along with the about-to-open movie, Big Eyes

The women always get ripped off, don't they?