The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

Splatterphace, 3 months ago

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

drolex, 3 months ago

Good idea, ‘rickety row’ sounds like a good recipe against gentrification