{"id":1858460,"date":"2023-02-24T03:03:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T08:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1858460"},"modified":"2023-02-24T03:04:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T08:04:51","slug":"in-new-anti-capitalism-documentary-pbs-gets-monopoly-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-new-anti-capitalism-documentary-pbs-gets-monopoly-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"In New Anti-Capitalism Documentary, PBS Gets Monopoly All Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-new-anti-capitalism-documentary-pbs-gets-monopoly-all-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1858460&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Sometimes a movie or a book can tell a story to illustrate a bigger point. A new PBS documentary on Monopoly was made to make a completely different argument.<\/p>\n<p>The film told the story of the iconic game and helped viewers to understand the fascinating history behind it. The film tried to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/films\/ruthless-monopolys-secret-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Documentary<\/a> To form a wider critique of capitalism &#8220;Ruthless: Monopoly&#8217;s Secret History&#8221; Only drew attention on the vast differences in an economic system and a mainstay toy store for almost a century.<\/p>\n<p> Anti-Capitalist Roots <\/p>\n<p>While Monopoly might seem unbelievable to many Americans, its roots are in an anti-capitalist political movement. Elizabeth Magie, an inventor, attempted to rally support for the simple taxes, which Henry George proposed as a way of making property communal at the turn of 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Magie created The Landlord&#8217;s Game which, at first glance, is very similar to Monopoly. Magie&#8217;s original <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3c\/BoardGamePatentMagie.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1904 patent<\/a> The game featured not only a collection of rental properties arranged around a square board but also features such as railroads, light and water franchises, public parks, and more &#8220;jail&#8221; And &#8220;go to jail&#8221; spaces on the corners of the board \u2014 all features of the later game.<\/p>\n<p>Magie however, created two sets rules for her game: A &#8220;monopolist&#8221; Version, in which people competed for the most property. &#8220;anti-monopolist&#8221; Version that rewards everyone who creates wealth. Guess which version of these rules kept people interested in the game.<\/p>\n<p> Game Spreads \u2014 and Gets Stolen <\/p>\n<p>The following three decades saw the development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Monopoly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">game spread<\/a> via universities and other social club. As the game evolved, groups modified or added details like the names of the rental property (which didn&#8217;t have any names in 1904 Magie) and changed the rules. This is similar to how some families modify Monopoly. These modifications eventually led to games that were named like &#8220;Inflation&#8221; And &#8220;Finance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A version of the game circulated in Atlantic City eventually made its way to Charles Darrow, Philadelphia. It was a good and a bad thing. Darrow invested the little money that he had to scale up production and distribute the game himself, which was a plus. The game was so well-received in Philadelphia stores during Christmas 1934, that Parker Brothers took a second look and decided to purchase it. They then promoted it until it became a worldwide phenomenon. Darrow made Monopoly a global phenomenon by introducing a previously obscure game to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Darrow, on the other hand stole Monopoly&#8217;s origins from Magie and other contributors. Parker Brothers was told a lie by Darrow about how he created the game in his spare hours. He did not speak to the neighbors who introduced him to the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Monopoly has a lot to do with competition, it has very little to do with capitalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":1858463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[19566,5844,16225,19567,7058],"class_list":["post-1858460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-anti-capitalism","tag-documentary","tag-monopoly","tag-pbs","tag-wrong"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}