51: Not All Fun and Board Games

The original Game of Life was about reaching happy old age, not "Millionaire Acres." And Monopoly was invented by an anti-capitalist who wanted to make a point about landowning and economic inequality. How did these games become the versions we play today? This is the story of how two iconic board games, designed to shape American culture, were instead warped by it. Subscribe to Business Insider: read.bi/podcast Sign up for our newsletter: http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/brought-to-you-by Subscribe to the Insider Today newsletter: https://bit.ly/insidertoday See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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