The surprising history behind the board game "Monopoly"

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  • @michelleschaefer5659
    @michelleschaefer5659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Also: Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
    One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
    The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
    Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
    When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased Magie, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly". This is why very few games of Monopoly end in better friendships! Some even end friendships! What they couldn't erase was Magie's lesson.

    • @juliogutierrez5256
      @juliogutierrez5256 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When you know económic theory but neglect basic human behavior.
      Theres a reason why Monopoly won in the end, people are ready to risk to succeed.

  • @TheBardmp
    @TheBardmp 8 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    The one rule no one follows is: If you do not buy the property you land on, people immediately auction it off (starting at $1 usually) and it goes around the table until someone gets it uncontested. Most properties don't actually get bought anywhere close to their starting value. That's why the game should only last an hour. The one rule everyone makes up is adding crap to "free parking". All that does is drag the game out as you pick up whatever loot people end up dumping there.

    • @nargarex2390
      @nargarex2390 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Rules never break, they're elastic

    • @send2yam
      @send2yam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But it’s in the instructions

    • @PabloCruise91
      @PabloCruise91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There's rules?

    • @collegelevelhogwarts
      @collegelevelhogwarts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Auctions start at $10 and increase by at least $1. If no one participates, it goes back on sale for the next player that lands on it.

    • @rahe2141
      @rahe2141 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao when I'm playing, everyone opts to buy the property from a lot of the times far above starting price...even if they're the ones who auctioned it

  • @yebber6404
    @yebber6404 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It’s sad none of those kids finished the game class is not long enough

  • @aaronbruceladner1983
    @aaronbruceladner1983 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In 1990, MONOPOLY Became a Short Lived Game Show, Airing Saturday Nights on ABC, and Hosted by Mike Reilly

  • @TMoney53
    @TMoney53 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    They somehow got around mentioning that she originally made the game to shed light on how unfair capitalism can be, but I believe monopolies were actually legal in America back in 1903

    • @ximec.r.2643
      @ximec.r.2643 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They are still legal, if you play it right you can win in more than a board game

    • @DraQinn
      @DraQinn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ximec.r.2643 Sad but true, by law they are "illegal" but the U.S. is the capitol of world monopolies.

    • @dirtydan9153
      @dirtydan9153 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      our lives are an endless game of monopoly basically :/

    • @brendanheaney7372
      @brendanheaney7372 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It was actually not about capitalism, but about private land ownership, interestingly enough. Henry George called for land taxes(Which are progressive, do not raise rent, and actually increase efficiency) to replace all other taxes. The land tax would be raised to 100% of the rent the land would go for if it was an empty plot, and as such the value of owning a plot of land would become equal to the value of not owning it, effectively rendering land ownership meaningless. A wide range of economists, from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman supported the tax. Karl Marx opposed it on the grounds it would make capitalism stronger.The goal of the game was to show how private ownership of land created inequality and monopolies, which it does effectively. Henry George was a capitalist in all other aspects than land.

    • @professorxaviour3649
      @professorxaviour3649 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brendanheaney7372 very well said. I love the facts!

  • @tylerfleet
    @tylerfleet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    People who use free parking are why games last a long time and when you sell your stuff back it’s half price and when you un mortgage property it’s plus 10% money is slowly getting shoved off the board which eventually ends the game. People who complain about an everlasting game are playing wrong.

  • @ianwilson4483
    @ianwilson4483 6 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    "Anything can win except for the browns." 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @mickeyrube6623
    @mickeyrube6623 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They forgot to talk about how the Monopoly Guy used to have a monocle.

  • @kennedytaylor601
    @kennedytaylor601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    monopoly will always take longer than an hour when with many players who are fiercely competitive and will take forever to make one deal.....
    "if it's under an hour, you haven't played monopoly fiercely and competitively enough"

  • @benjaminlehman3221
    @benjaminlehman3221 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Elizabeth Magie also made the game to show the "single tax." She agreed with an economist that said only real estate can be taxed. It is in The Monopoly Companion by Philip Orbanes.

  • @MyThoughtzAndOpinionz
    @MyThoughtzAndOpinionz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Actually, Monopoly is the official name of the USA.

    • @maciej.ratajczak
      @maciej.ratajczak 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In Title 28, Code § 3002 of the The United States Code:
      (15) “United States” means-
      (A) a Federal corporation;
      (B) an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or
      (C) an instrumentality of the United States.

  • @Kiritsun
    @Kiritsun 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    How to be a good Capitalist

    • @Maltcider
      @Maltcider 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      >Good
      >Capitalist
      Choose one

    • @Angelotube5000
      @Angelotube5000 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How to be a Socialists: just steal everyone's money and send to jail anyone who complains. :)

    • @RadicalCaveman
      @RadicalCaveman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That's exactly what capitalists do, idiot.

    • @Angelotube5000
      @Angelotube5000 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Michael Lubin
      What an idiot you are: Socialist governments jail anyone who opposes socialism examples Vietnam, China, NORTH KOREA, USSR, East Germany, CUBA, Venezuela, etc., you fool! Socialism is CANCER. Capitalism make people progress and rich. South Korea best Korea you fuck socialist communist. Your Sociology major is bullshit.

    • @Maltcider
      @Maltcider 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      All those countries had State Capitalist economies. Socialism is where the workers themselves control their workplaces, not the government or capitalists. Private Capitalism and State Capitalism are two sides of the same exploitative coin.

  • @mrabcd3819
    @mrabcd3819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Most popular gametoy play in class after exam in elementary school todate.

  • @larryfine4950
    @larryfine4950 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A like how they put emphasis that she was a woman.

  • @pawankharagjitsing2226
    @pawankharagjitsing2226 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The reason he invented it is pure to show that only one can be a winner. To show that we live in a piramid system

  • @someonenamevalencia7527
    @someonenamevalencia7527 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    she got monopolies

  • @juliefuhrer3699
    @juliefuhrer3699 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    she made the game but her game is a little diffrent

  • @NERDmNERDf
    @NERDmNERDf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Was that a sexist comment that last second I heard?

    • @lordoreocat
      @lordoreocat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She said “can’t say I’m surprised a woman came up with that.” So the opposite, actually.

  • @MackeyDeez
    @MackeyDeez 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I used to shoot craps with monopoly money back in 5th grade

  • @thegoodsgone1965
    @thegoodsgone1965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My favourite game.

  • @SK-le1gm
    @SK-le1gm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks David. Now do RISK !

  • @David-hb3wj
    @David-hb3wj หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tim was my teacher for 6 grade

  • @ViktorKruger99
    @ViktorKruger99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hate this game because someone else always takes the car first

  • @ayt3k
    @ayt3k 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How can you explain the origin of Monopoly without even mentioning Georgism?

  • @sedonarose7563
    @sedonarose7563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And of course we can’t talk about Lizzie because she is pointing out how unfair and cruel capitalism is.

  • @mrabcd3819
    @mrabcd3819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Monopoly is an addiction.healthy

  • @madalynciabattoni1052
    @madalynciabattoni1052 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My fav is the HAT

  • @awesomeguy9573
    @awesomeguy9573 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    It wouldn't be TH-cam worthy if it didn't end with a feminist comment xD

    • @syvadcram
      @syvadcram 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It wouldn't be TH-cam worthy if a feminist wasn't triggered by criticism in the comment section LOL.

    • @hyperx72
      @hyperx72 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And it wouldn't be a TH-cam worthy if someone wasn't buzzing "Triggered!" at a criticism...

    • @ladnavar
      @ladnavar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And it wouldn't be TH-cam worthy if the dog wasn't wet like chinese noodle pastrami sandwich! >ω

  • @famebano
    @famebano 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Monotny?

  • @puddycat2325
    @puddycat2325 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "American icon"? You have the fake version! The English one is the best and original one.

    • @eduardosquidwardo2694
      @eduardosquidwardo2694 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Why do so many people say this? Monopoly seems to be one of those things that both Yanks and Limeys hold so dearly, but the game is overtly American in origin and the game plays the same in the UK and us, the properties just have different names

    • @Zachariah3D
      @Zachariah3D 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The game was invented in America by an American. just because you played the British version first it doesn't mean that that's the one that was there first.

  • @Machell
    @Machell ปีที่แล้ว

    And I can whip up those properties 😉😁 discernment always good to see you BOO

  • @Machell
    @Machell ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you met Q yet 😂😂 hold on 😮😮

  • @harry793
    @harry793 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It wouldn’t be American news if there was no feminism

  • @mlfitness67
    @mlfitness67 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everything can win except for the browns

  • @rayjin7448
    @rayjin7448 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    14 communists disliked this video

  • @SusanKulasa
    @SusanKulasa 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kith ♾

  • @Machell
    @Machell ปีที่แล้ว

    I said leave me alone 😂😂 don't grab those horns everywhere 🙏💕🪷🕊️🌴☯️🌹 ✌️ 🌈

  • @vlow95
    @vlow95 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i love monopoly i WANT ALL THE MONOPOLY SETS PLEASE ALL EDITIONS HOW MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE SELL ME

  • @larryfine4950
    @larryfine4950 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Actually, she made the origin of the game ( the landlords game) but Darrow made the game monopoly

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They changed names of properties and so on but basically same game you can buy versions of other big cities such as Nashville and so on. If any of those are still available I don't know, could be just when they have an agreement with a city.

    • @shana_sakai
      @shana_sakai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When u liked ur own comment..

    • @larryfine4950
      @larryfine4950 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      shana sakai I didn't but ok.

  • @alexandradelliou
    @alexandradelliou 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2020: 141

  • @darkshotgamer6386
    @darkshotgamer6386 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rupes is waste

  • @justiceusa559
    @justiceusa559 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lets take it all the way back who really Is smart? 🧠 beautiful but got brains ...

  • @supremesyb
    @supremesyb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    no wonder I always hated this game n it never made sense

  • @venee4700
    @venee4700 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Capitalismo 👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿
    Comunismo☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

  • @leakyeak4225
    @leakyeak4225 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ironic

  • @codycolchado3158
    @codycolchado3158 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is sad

  • @j_changster
    @j_changster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The irony lol