Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #47: Monopoly. Also, the monopoly man does NOT wear a monocle.

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#monopoly #boardgames #capitalism #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #comic #comics #cartoon #webcomics

#Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. 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 eliminating 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 the "Prosperity" rules & celebrated "Monopoly".

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Thank you, @MarkHoltom.

Wow, a masturbatory template for every #dictator and every dictatoress.

How revealing that something like this comes out of the haze of US #monopoly companies and crappy post-humanists: on the way to #Auschwitz 2.0, people like #Trump, #Musk or #Altman must of course uniquely identify the plebs in order to be able to graft a predetermined life/death onto them.

The uniqueness of this Blockchain might make a digital #Hitler believe he/she can colonize and rule #Asia & the whole world

#EU fines #Apple €500M and #Meta €200M for breaking #Europe’s #digital rules

source: politico.eu/article/eu-fines-a…

Apple faces a €500 million fine for breaching the regulation’s rules for app stores, while Meta drew a penalty of €200 million for its "pay or consent" advertising model, which requires that European Union users pay to access ad-free versions of #Facebook and #Instagram.

#internet #online #news #law #economy #advertisement #monopoly #user

EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules

The highly anticipated penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.

^{Jacob Parry (POLITICO)}

You won't believe what they have found out:

apnews.com/article/google-ille…

#google #monopoly #economy #news #advertisement #internet

Google's digital ad network declared an illegal monopoly

Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.

^{Michael Liedtke (AP News)}

Brettspiele sind toll, aber gelegentlich ist nach einer Partie #Monopoly doch mal die Stimmung schlecht. Dennoch ist es eines der beliebtesten Spiele weltweit. Ursprünglich stammt die Idee dazu von Elizabeth Magie, die damit eigentlich über die Gefahr von Monopolen aufklären wollte.

#MonopolyTag #TheLandlordsGame #ElizabethMagie #CharlesDarrow

Class warfare

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#class #war #monopoly

Is all this burgeoning right-wing ideology around the rights of women (i.e. that we shouldn't really have any), in all walks of life and in all places in the world…

…de facto just another part of a grand money making scheme?

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#Wealth #GlobalEconomy #Billionaires #Monopoly #FarRight