What can we learn from Monopoly?

We were invited by MarketWatch to illustrate and animate a few episodes of the Best New Ideas in Money podcast.

Perhaps you have never heard of the board game “The Landlord’s Game”, but Monopoly is not an unusual name, right? For many years, the invention of Monopoly was attributed to Charles Darrow, the man who sold the popular game to Parker Brothers in 1935. But it turns out that a woman, Lizzie Magie, had already patented her nearly identical game, “The Landlord Game”. ”, in 1904.