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it's monday april 25th 22 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The secret anti-monopolis history of the Monopoly board game.

Plus, why we're all having trouble remembering things right now and how we can strengthen our memories going forward.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

According to the Parker Brothers, the board game Monopoly was invented by a man named Charles Darrow

in the 1930s, who sold it to them as a way to provide for his family during the Great Depression.

Now that's not completely untrue, but it is leaving out a lot of other much more interesting

details, chief among them, that the game was originally invented by a very anti-monopoly

woman three decades prior, and that the world really only remembers her because a professor in the 70s

dredged her story back up again during a legal battle with Parker Brothers who was suing him

for his creation of a board game literally called anti-monopoly.

So Elizabeth Lizzie McGee was born in 1866, the daughter of an abolitionist newspaper publisher who traveled with

Abraham Lincoln during his famous debates with Stephen Douglas. McGee, though born a year after the president

was assassinated, learned a lot from her father and his politics. It was he who shared with her

economist Henry George's book, Progress and Poverty. George believed, quoting the New York Times,

that individuals should own 100% of what they made or created,

but that everything found in nature, particularly land, should belong to everyone.

George was a proponent of the land value tax, also known as the single tax.

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