schmorp@slrpnk.net to Board Games@slrpnk.netEnglish · 8 months agoThe Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)publicdomainreview.orgexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareSplatterphace@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoI love how they named the nicer properties after nice places IRL, but for the lower end, it looks like they didn’t know any poor areas IRL, so they just made up names that sounded like places “the poors” would live and gather
minus-squaredrolex@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoGood idea, ‘rickety row’ sounds like a good recipe against gentrification
I love how they named the nicer properties after nice places IRL, but for the lower end, it looks like they didn’t know any poor areas IRL, so they just made up names that sounded like places “the poors” would live and gather
Good idea, ‘rickety row’ sounds like a good recipe against gentrification