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Pauline von Hellermann
@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#FollowTheMoney 🧵64/n The article made me think once again about Monopoly, and how perfectly it captures what the world is like. Originally called “the Landlord Game”, it was invented in 1903 by left-wing feminist Lizzie Magie who wanted to expose how rentier capitalism works through a game. She more than succeeded but - this being capitalist US - never got the credit for it. Interesting piece about it all here.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-history-monopoly-capitalist-game-leftwing-origins

#privateequity#Assets#Monopoly

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• This article is more than 10 years old
The secret history of
Monopoly: the capitalist
board game's leftwing
origins
In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie
patented the board game that we now know as
Monopoly - but she never gets the credit. Now a
new book aims to put that right
Screenshot of top of article Годонон MONA МОНОРОС + OPOLY Monopoly • This article is more than 10 years old The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game's leftwing origins In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie patented the board game that we now know as Monopoly - but she never gets the credit. Now a new book aims to put that right
Screenshot of top of article Годонон MONA МОНОРОС + OPOLY Monopoly • This article is more than 10 years old The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game's leftwing origins In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie patented the board game that we now know as Monopoly - but she never gets the credit. Now a new book aims to put that right
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Pauline von Hellermann
@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#FollowTheMoney 🧵63/n Excellent article by Tim White on how across Europe #privateequity has been buying up significant proportions of housing and driving up rental prices. A key dynamic in growing inequality that contributes to alienation and rise of far-right.

Everything is about #Assets.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/europe-financial-sector-house-prices-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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The housing crisis in Europe
Across Europe, the financial
sector has pushed up house
prices. It's a political timebomb
Tim White
We've been living in a great experiment: can finance
provide basic human rights such as housing? The
answer is increasingly no
Mon 7 Jul 2025 05.00 BST
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Screenshot of top of this article The housing crisis in Europe Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb Tim White We've been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no Mon 7 Jul 2025 05.00 BST Share 201 FOR SALE FU DE WONINGMARKT WONEN IS EEN STOP MASS TOURISM HOUSING SPECULAVO TALES COMPRES FEEDING 1
Screenshot of top of this article The housing crisis in Europe Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb Tim White We've been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no Mon 7 Jul 2025 05.00 BST Share 201 FOR SALE FU DE WONINGMARKT WONEN IS EEN STOP MASS TOURISM HOUSING SPECULAVO TALES COMPRES FEEDING 1
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