After that weirdo commercial went viral, satansjacuzzi did some digging and hit gold: Lizzie Magie, the creator of Monopoly's anti-capitalist inspiration.
— helped draw people into the burgeoning political left of the era.
Magie was also an early feminist who believed in empowering herself. She obtained a patent for her game, notable in part because of how Hasbro’s Ms. Monopoly ad highlights how few patents are held by women.also chronicles Magie’s newspaper ad satirizing the economic nature of marriage by offering herself up to the highest bidder.
Despite her news-making antics and her hand in creating a world-famous game, Magie’s story was almost lost to history., it was a legal battle over a game called Anti-Monopoly in the 1970s that unearthed her patents and codified her role in the creation of one of the most famous games in the world. “Monopoly is, in terms of board games, probably the most successful game of all time, if not one of them. And it is promoted to teach people about economics, how to save money,” Van Slyke says. He says Darrow’s story was long regarded as “a rah-rah, feel good story of, like, ‘This guy invented this game during the Great Depression. He sold it and made a ton of money, and lifted himself up by the bootstraps.
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