• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    Also … the history of the game monopoly was supposed to be an education to teach people about the terrible idea of ‘monopolies’ in general

    It was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)

    Everyone thinks of it as cute fun game … when it reality, we’ve all been conditioned to think of the idea of monopolies as a benign thing in society that isn’t a problem.

    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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      11 days ago

      I don’t know anyone who thinks of monopolies as a good or benign thing, they’re usually brought up in the context of the harm they’re causing (ISPs, sysco) or as something to avoid in the case of a pending merger/acquisition

      • usrtrv@sh.itjust.works
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        11 days ago

        No the original “monopoly” was known as Landlord’s Game which was the educational game. If anything it would be a better statement to say the company that made the ouiji board also copy/stole the game Landlord to make Monopoly. This company being Hasbro.