
Monopoly
Nerd of Mouth
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The Darrow Brothers and the Landlord's Game
In 1935 George Swinnerton Parker comes out of retirement to get to get Lizzy McGee in a meeting and he winds and dine sir talks about all the grand things that like he'll do. They purchase the rights for her game for publishing and Lizzy is ecstatic. Finally this company is going to popularize this important message I'm getting across to Americans about taxation. Oh this is the best thing that ever happened. But Darrow negotiated for royalties. Not a one-time fee. In perpetuity to the point where every copy of monopoly sold still gets a cut sent to the Darrow family to theDarrow estate to this day. So she got completely fucked and realizes this after
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