Wonderful and Funny Post; I really had a good time reading but in case no one else does….phuew on them…..here is the LINK AGAIN; go to it for a good year end treat. ~~ dru-oz~~ has spoken!
https://thenib.com/brief-history-of-monopoly
Games People Play…..
Recently I was surprised to see that one of my followers, w1nt3l, knew of Henry George and the land value tax……it is an economic theory that I think would solve a lot of problems…..but few know of his theory these days of runaway greed….
When you were a kid or maybe just yesterday…did you ever play Monopoly? Did you get a monopoly game for Christmas?
Did you know that Henry George was the inspiration for the original Monopoly……..BAM! Drop the history bomb!
This is a little something to explain the game and its origins…..
A brief history of America’s favorite board game……(you just knew there would be a historic perspective in there somewhere, right?)
Source: Monopoly’s Radical, Anticapitalist, Feminist Origins – by Andy Warner
Back in the 80’s I studied at the Henry George Institute…..and to this day I firmly believe that his land value tax would…
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squatters would be a fine sattire…. instead of chance cards there could be Thoreau cards. yep, no luxury tax it’s a poll tax 😉 a certain amount of sanitation would have to be done to minimize socio-economic slur, but 😀 ….
ooooo gawd, I LOVE this idea. hee hee hee and giggle!
Happy Happy whatever to you and yours. xxx ooo ~~me~~
civil disobedience!! 😉
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