How ‘The Landlord’s Game’ became ‘Monopoly’.
Henry George was an enlightened economist.
Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, and Leo Tolstoy have quoted him.
He proposed a third way, between capitalism and communism.
His main principle was that a man should profit from his labour, but not profit from what belonged to everyone.
So, instead of income tax, he proposed a tax on the value of land.
Because the land itself belongs to everyone.
One of his followers was Lizzie Magie.
In 1904 she decided this should be taught to children.
She turned it into a game, so they could learn while playing.
It was called ‘The La
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