![]() ![]() How can there be overproduction to all have enough? It's really important to understand that in the United States after the Civil War at this time, there was an incredible amount of wealth being created that hadn't been seen in this country anymore. Such overfilled granaries that people actually die by salvation want due to overproduction was a greater absurdity ever uttered. What is the current explanation of the hard times over production? There are so many clothes that men must go ragged, so much coal that in the bitter winters people have to shiver. He started forming his ideas about the pitfalls of extreme wealth while traveling around the world to places like Australia and India. Henry George is pretty much the equivalent of a rock star. The ownership of land is the great fundamental fact, which ultimately determines the social, the political, and consequently the intellectual and moral condition of people. The great cause of inequality in the distribution of wealth is inequality in the ownership of land. And as she dives into this book, the world begins to make a little more sense to her. Her family was struggling, never having recovered from the recession six years earlier. It's 1879 in a small town in Illinois where 13-year-old Lizzie McGee is curled up next to the fire with a book her father gave her. For this episode, we are going to hand over the mic to Rund and to our co-host of Thru Line, Rammstein Arableui, to tell us the fraught origin story of this famous board game. Today on the show, how a critique of capitalism grew from a seat of an idea in a rebellious young woman's mind into a game legendary for its celebration of wealth, no matter the cost. Rund is one of the hosts of NPR's Thru Line podcast. Hello and welcome to Planet Money, I'm Amanda Aronchick. But there's another origin story, a very different one, that promotes a very different image of capitalism. In 1934, he brought Monopoly to the game company, Parker Brothers, hoping to make some money off of it. That a man named Charles Dero was unemployed and came up with a game to pass the time. At one point, this story was included in every box of Monopoly. This rags to riches narrative is even part of the game's origin story. The idea that anyone with just a little bit of cash can rise from rags to riches in this country. How to negotiate, how to manage your cash flow, how to diversify your assets like owning homes and hotels. They're the obvious things Monopoly teaches you. How much is the rent? Questions that feel much bigger than a board game. What do they mean by mortgage? I don't know. I try playing Monopoly with my nephews recently. What? I think that we should review the game. Do you all know how to play the game? No, no. Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at /planetmoney ![]() It was fact-checked by Kevin Volkl and mixed by Josh Newell. The Throughline episode was produced by Rund Abdelfatah, Ramtin Arablouei, Lawrence Wu, Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Julie Caine, Victor Yvellez, Anya Steinberg, Yolanda Sangweni, Casey Miner, Cristina Kim, Devin Katayama, and Amiri Tulloch. This episode was produced by Emma Peaslee, mastered by Natasha Branch, and edited by Jess Jiang. For more about the origin story of Monopoly, listen to their original episode Do Not Pass Go. This episode was made in collaboration with NPR's Throughline. (And with two sets of starkly different rules.) That story shows how a critique of capitalism grew from a seed of an idea in a rebellious young woman's mind into a game legendary for its celebration of wealth at all costs. īut there's another origin story – a very different one that promotes a very different image of capitalism. Mary Pilon, author of The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game. The game's staying power may in part be because of strong American lore - the idea that anyone, with just a little bit of cash, can rise from rags to riches. Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games in history. The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism ![]()
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