The surprising history behind the board game "Monopoly"

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The surprising history behind the board game "Monopoly"

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@michelleschaefer5659 2 жыл бұрын

Also: Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from. One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good. The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else. Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies. When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased Magie, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly". This is why very few games of Monopoly end in better friendships! Some even end friendships! What they couldn't erase was Magie's lesson.

@juliogutierrez5256 Жыл бұрын

When you know económic theory but neglect basic human behavior. Theres a reason why Monopoly won in the end, people are ready to risk to succeed.

@TheBardmp 8 жыл бұрын

The one rule no one follows is: If you do not buy the property you land on, people immediately auction it off (starting at $1 usually) and it goes around the table until someone gets it uncontested. Most properties don't actually get bought anywhere close to their starting value. That's why the game should only last an hour. The one rule everyone makes up is adding crap to "free parking". All that does is drag the game out as you pick up whatever loot people end up dumping there.

@nargarex2390 5 жыл бұрын

Rules never break, they're elastic

@send2yam 5 жыл бұрын

But it’s in the instructions

@PabloCruise91 4 жыл бұрын

There's rules?

@collegelevelhogwarts 4 жыл бұрын

Auctions start at $10 and increase by at least $1. If no one participates, it goes back on sale for the next player that lands on it.

@rahe2141 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao when I'm playing, everyone opts to buy the property from a lot of the times far above starting price...even if they're the ones who auctioned it

@ianwilson4483 5 жыл бұрын

"Anything can win except for the browns." 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Prince-gu8or 5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@thewomanofglory 4 жыл бұрын

OMG!!! I heard that and was like, "Oh snap!" 🤣

@DariusGheghesan 2 жыл бұрын

Poor Cleveland

@yebber6404 4 жыл бұрын

It’s sad none of those kids finished the game class is not long enough

@tylerfleet 4 жыл бұрын

People who use free parking are why games last a long time and when you sell your stuff back it’s half price and when you un mortgage property it’s plus 10% money is slowly getting shoved off the board which eventually ends the game. People who complain about an everlasting game are playing wrong.

@TMoney53 5 жыл бұрын

They somehow got around mentioning that she originally made the game to shed light on how unfair capitalism can be, but I believe monopolies were actually legal in America back in 1903

@ximec.r.2643 5 жыл бұрын

They are still legal, if you play it right you can win in more than a board game

@DraQinn 5 жыл бұрын

@@ximec.r.2643 Sad but true, by law they are "illegal" but the U.S. is the capitol of world monopolies.

@dirtydan9153 5 жыл бұрын

our lives are an endless game of monopoly basically :/

@brendanheaney7372 4 жыл бұрын

It was actually not about capitalism, but about private land ownership, interestingly enough. Henry George called for land taxes(Which are progressive, do not raise rent, and actually increase efficiency) to replace all other taxes. The land tax would be raised to 100% of the rent the land would go for if it was an empty plot, and as such the value of owning a plot of land would become equal to the value of not owning it, effectively rendering land ownership meaningless. A wide range of economists, from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman supported the tax. Karl Marx opposed it on the grounds it would make capitalism stronger.The goal of the game was to show how private ownership of land created inequality and monopolies, which it does effectively. Henry George was a capitalist in all other aspects than land.

@professorxaviour3649 3 жыл бұрын

@@brendanheaney7372 very well said. I love the facts!

@aaronbruceladner1983 7 ай бұрын

In 1990, MONOPOLY Became a Short Lived Game Show, Airing Saturday Nights on ABC, and Hosted by Mike Reilly

@MyThoughtzAndOpinionz 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, Monopoly is the official name of the USA.

@maciej.ratajczak 4 жыл бұрын

In Title 28, Code § 3002 of the The United States Code: (15) “United States” means- (A) a Federal corporation; (B) an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or (C) an instrumentality of the United States.

@kennedytaylor601 3 жыл бұрын

monopoly will always take longer than an hour when with many players who are fiercely competitive and will take forever to make one deal..... "if it's under an hour, you haven't played monopoly fiercely and competitively enough"

@larryfine4950 6 жыл бұрын

A like how they put emphasis that she was a woman.

@Kiritsun 8 жыл бұрын

How to be a good Capitalist

@Maltcider 7 жыл бұрын

>Good >Capitalist Choose one

@Angelotube5000 7 жыл бұрын

How to be a Socialists: just steal everyone's money and send to jail anyone who complains. :)

@NuisanceMan 7 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what capitalists do, idiot.

@Angelotube5000 7 жыл бұрын

Michael Lubin What an idiot you are: Socialist governments jail anyone who opposes socialism examples Vietnam, China, NORTH KOREA, USSR, East Germany, CUBA, Venezuela, etc., you fool! Socialism is CANCER. Capitalism make people progress and rich. South Korea best Korea you fuck socialist communist. Your Sociology major is bullshit.

@Maltcider 7 жыл бұрын

All those countries had State Capitalist economies. Socialism is where the workers themselves control their workplaces, not the government or capitalists. Private Capitalism and State Capitalism are two sides of the same exploitative coin.

@NERDmNERDf 4 жыл бұрын

Was that a sexist comment that last second I heard?

@benjaminlehman3221 5 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Magie also made the game to show the "single tax." She agreed with an economist that said only real estate can be taxed. It is in The Monopoly Companion by Philip Orbanes.

@mrabcd3819 3 жыл бұрын

Most popular gametoy play in class after exam in elementary school todate.

@SK-le1gm 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks David. Now do RISK !

@MackeyDeez 3 ай бұрын

I used to shoot craps with monopoly money back in 5th grade

@thegoodsgone1965 3 жыл бұрын

My favourite game.

@jchang.y 5 жыл бұрын

The irony lol

@juliefuhrer3699 3 жыл бұрын

she made the game but her game is a little diffrent

@famebano 6 жыл бұрын

Monotny?

@collegelevelhogwarts 4 жыл бұрын

Monotony

@someonenamevalencia7527 8 жыл бұрын

she got monopolies

@Machell 9 ай бұрын

And I can whip up those properties 😉😁 discernment always good to see you BOO

@mrabcd3819 3 жыл бұрын

Monopoly is an addiction.healthy

@ayt3k 3 ай бұрын

How can you explain the origin of Monopoly without even mentioning Georgism?

@ViktorKruger99 3 жыл бұрын

I hate this game because someone else always takes the car first

@Machell 9 ай бұрын

Have you met Q yet 😂😂 hold on 😮😮

@user-ud4fi8np9d 6 ай бұрын

Kith ♾

@puddycat2325 6 жыл бұрын

"American icon"? You have the fake version! The English one is the best and original one.

@eduardosquidwardo2694 6 жыл бұрын

Why do so many people say this? Monopoly seems to be one of those things that both Yanks and Limeys hold so dearly, but the game is overtly American in origin and the game plays the same in the UK and us, the properties just have different names

@Zachariah3D 4 жыл бұрын

The game was invented in America by an American. just because you played the British version first it doesn't mean that that's the one that was there first.

@alexandradelliou 4 жыл бұрын

2020: 141

@darkshotgamer6386 5 жыл бұрын

Rupes is waste

@sedonarose7563 2 жыл бұрын

And of course we can’t talk about Lizzie because she is pointing out how unfair and cruel capitalism is.

@Machell 9 ай бұрын

I said leave me alone 😂😂 don't grab those horns everywhere 🙏💕🪷🕊️🌴☯️🌹 ✌️ 🌈

@awesomeguy9573 7 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't be KZfaq worthy if it didn't end with a feminist comment xD

@syvadcram 6 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't be KZfaq worthy if a feminist wasn't triggered by criticism in the comment section LOL.

@hyperx72 6 жыл бұрын

And it wouldn't be a KZfaq worthy if someone wasn't buzzing "Triggered!" at a criticism...

@ladnavar 2 жыл бұрын

And it wouldn't be KZfaq worthy if the dog wasn't wet like chinese noodle pastrami sandwich! >ω

@harry793 4 жыл бұрын

It wouldn’t be American news if there was no feminism

@rayjin7448 5 жыл бұрын

14 communists disliked this video

@mlfitness67 2 жыл бұрын

Everything can win except for the browns

@leakyeak4225 Күн бұрын

Ironic

@supremesyb Ай бұрын

no wonder I always hated this game n it never made sense

@vlow95 7 жыл бұрын

i love monopoly i WANT ALL THE MONOPOLY SETS PLEASE ALL EDITIONS HOW MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE SELL ME

@computerkid1416 7 жыл бұрын

Obvious troll is obvious.

@justiceusa559 Жыл бұрын

Lets take it all the way back who really Is smart? 🧠 beautiful but got brains ...

@larryfine4950 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, she made the origin of the game ( the landlords game) but Darrow made the game monopoly

@hydrolito 4 жыл бұрын

They changed names of properties and so on but basically same game you can buy versions of other big cities such as Nashville and so on. If any of those are still available I don't know, could be just when they have an agreement with a city.

@shana_sakai 4 жыл бұрын

When u liked ur own comment..

@larryfine4950 4 жыл бұрын

shana sakai I didn't but ok.