Monopoly Was Built to Warn UsA lesson on greed twisted into a capitalist icon.

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Hidden Sides of History

The world’s most famous board game began as a protest against the mechanics it now celebrates. Lizzie Magie invented 'The Landlord's Game' to demonstrate the social dangers of land ownership. Her original vision featured two sets of rules to contrast sharing wealth with hoarding it, until the cutthroat version was stolen and rebranded as the ultimate capitalist fantasy.