@MarkHoltom that board is so pretty!

Wonder if the the rules are readily available? Would love to play Prosperity on Monopoly board. Flipping the course in a game that causes so much offence between players when played.

@MarkHoltom Facinating! Thank you for posting this, I found this gem after reading your toot, https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/
What an incredible woman 🤩

@MarkHoltom si quelqu'un créait le jeu avec les règles "Prosperity" serait-ce litigieux vis-à-vis des droits sur le Monopoly, ce serait une bonne idée 🤔

@MarkHoltom Can we make the prosperity part into its own game and become even more popular than the monopoly one?

#wildIdea

@MarkHoltom Well of course, Parker Bros couldn't challenge their own monopoly on their wares!

@MarkHoltom The real power is controlling the narrative.
The peak of power is not being able to tell others what to do.
It is making them want to do the things you want without you even telling them so.
#postmodern #narrative #theory

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Ohh my goodness gracious !!! Seriously!? I want to play prosperity ! But I guess the guys prefer the money grabbing monopoly instead of working with each other… figures 🙄
Thank you for sharing!!! I’m gonna go share this with my family. (I never really played monopoly and it never seemed to appeal to me, I guess I know why now! 😹)

@MarkHoltom damn, talk about victors writing history!

@MarkHoltom Now I'm imagining a tariffs expansion to explain basic economic principles for the capitalists out there.

@MarkHoltom she was a Quaker too I believe.

@MarkHoltom More rot created by the patriarchy and their lust for capitalism

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https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-landlords-game/

@MarkHoltom And thus, one of the least interesting board games to play was born...

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I believe there's an opportunity to clone Monopoly into a new oilgarch game called Tariffs.

@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk Probably the most prominent georgist since henry george himself

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seems like *both* sets of rules are flawed? Both of them make it seem that it is a zero-sum game and wealth can not be generated, only moved around.

@MarkHoltom Looked her up on Wikipedia. She was also an advocate for the rights of women and black people.

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Good researching, but given the country of origin, is it any wonder Monopoly became more popular than Prosperity?

@MarkHoltom great post, thank you!
So the Parker brothers monopolized monopoly? Haha

@MarkHoltom here is some more on the topic: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/

@MarkHoltom some game maker needs to release this version.

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Here's an oldish post regarding this topic:

https://mastodon.social/@jaze/110140642020708134

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@MarkHolt Worw, if this is one of those annoying things called fact of history. I have much respect for Elizabeth Magie and explains why capitalism sucks for the people.

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If you play Monopoly and you are not the winner, you feel out of luck, unfairly treated and sometimes cheated. Apart from the winner, everyone feels worse after playing.

Just like in capitalism in the real world.

@MarkHoltom Oh! That's why Monopoly is sooooooooo boring. Have to try Prosperity rules!

@MarkHoltom Many decades ago I had a New Year's Eve babysitting job for my neighbors and our tradition was to play the board game called "Life" but play it backwards.

You started out with all of the things/cars/kids/money and whoever lost them all first won the game.

I didn't realize until a few years later what a little nihilist existentialist I actually was as a kid. 🤣

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Oh my lord, why hasn't anyone published the Prosperity version?
We should do so as open source...🤔

@MarkHoltom I started reading this and had to start over because I somehow initially assumed this was about the concept of a monopoly

@MarkHoltom My father usually incorporated some what we would now call “hacks”into playing Monopoly with us as children. One was a periodic issue of “bonuses” of $500 bills when someone playing was losing and would be forced out. He had others less dramatic. For him the object was to keep playing the game.

@MarkHoltom I wonder if in her original version of 'Monopoly' the game board ended up getting trashed quite as much as games played on the current board do.

@MarkHoltom More about #TheLandlordsGame in this thread!
https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/109900440610815052

@MarkHoltom do you know if there's availability of this table game nowadays?

@MarkHoltom for those interested in the story, this is a great book on the topic

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b0cb0db1-562b-4dc3-a052-23f1d6416306

@MarkHoltom wonder if that is out of copyright and could be reprinted and sold today. Seems like it should be... would just need good copies of all the original graphics.

@MarkHoltom so you also watch Heretic recently.

@MarkHoltom Yep. 👇

https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman/113706543086075261

@MarkHoltom her birthday is a holiday in Macomb, Illinois.
https://www.visitforgottonia.com/lizzie-magie-inventor-of-monopoly/

@MarkHoltom There was an interesting documentary about this on German tv channel Arte a few months ago. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC-026283/gestohlener-ruhm-frauen-im-schatten-des-erfolgs/

@MarkHoltom So under the Prosperity rules landlords profited more by forming a cartel. That seem worse.