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Monopoly

Nerd of Mouth

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Charles Darrow and the Monopoly Board Game

If you look at the census data from around the time the Quakers were playing this game and match it to the adjacent neighborhoods on the Monopoly board. It's weird Mediterranean Avenue and Baltic Avenue. That's where a lot of low-income black communities were. And those are the two cheapest parts of the board. Huh funny that everything Monopoly is about everything.

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