More than 100 years of history of Monopoly: The original is completely different from the present and the dark story is imbued with the taste of money

`Monopoly` is popular in Vietnam with the name Monopoly.

Although this game is no longer as popular as before, almost everyone knows its rules.

Those who have played this game will certainly never forget the excitement of becoming a `big landowner` holding a lot of property and money.

However, looking back at the more than 100-year history of this Monopoly game, it is truly a dark story full of the stench of money.

Many people believe that Monopoly was created by a man named Charles Darrow in 1935 in America.

But, history is only for the winners.

The person who actually invented this game was Elizabeth Magie, but she did not receive any benefits or the opportunity to become a billionaire.

Furthermore, if she had known that the game Monopoly had spread around the world in this way, she would have felt a strong sense of guilt.

Elizabeth Magie always hopes that the ultimate winners will be ordinary people, not those who are crazy about buying land to get rich.

Elizabeth Magie was born in 1866 and was quite rebellious compared to most women of the time.

All of these ideas were influenced by Elizabeth Magie’s father.

The quote: `It is clear that the equal right to use land is the same as the equal right to breathe air, as long as it exists, everyone has this right` is considered a guiding principle in Elizabeth Magie’s life.

In fact, Elizabeth Magie designed the Monopoly game with two different forms, divided into `Monopoly` and `Prosperity`.

`Monopoly` – The first form of Monopoly has almost the same rules as the Monopoly we are playing now.

The second form is `Prosperity`, the land is owned by all players, not by any individual.

So how to determine the winner in the second form?

But one more question arises, why do people today play Monopoly in the form of `Monopoly`?

In 1903, Elizabeth Magie named her product `Landlord’s Game` and applied for a patent.

A few years later, Elizabeth Magie tried to partner with Parker Brothers, the largest toy manufacturer at the time.

Some time later, in the 1930s of the 20th century, a man named Charles Darrow, mentioned at the beginning of the article, began to come up with evil ideas while unemployed at home.

He began editing a few details in Elizabeth Magie’s original Monopoly game, then offered it to Parker Brothers.

And the name `Monopoly` is used to this day, instead of the original name `Landlord’s Game`.

Charles Darrow then became the first game designer in the world with assets reaching millions.

But this amount of $500 is not equivalent to the issue of recognition of Elizabeth Magie’s first creative position.

This 500 USD is just the amount of money they buy out all related games to ensure their monopoly.

In addition to copyright infringement, Elizabeth Magie is also very miserable because the original meaning of the game has been completely changed.

After that, Elizabeth Magie repeatedly brought this incident to the media but very few people paid attention.

This incident was exposed by a scholar who shared the same ideals as Elizabeth Magie: Ralph Anspach.

2015 is the 80th anniversary of the Monopoly game being officially released and distributed, more than 275 million game versions have been sold worldwide.

Source: Zhihu