
Monopoly and Academic Decathlon
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Monopoly's Origin Story
Monopolies mealy mout take on economic inequality is also like life, of course. And i think monopoly's thematic inconsistency might be a product of the game's complicated origin story. In 19 29, in the wake ofthe great stock market crash, forty year old charles darrow lost his job in philadelphia and was forced to scratch together a living as a dordodor salesman. But then in 19 33, he invented the board game monopoly, eventually patenting the game and licensing it to the company parker brothers. And darrow became the first board game millionaire,. A proper rag rich's story of an american inventor succeeding by the sweat of his randian brow
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