POSITIVE MONEY
by Ralph Anspach and comment by Rafael Zambrana February 23, 2015.
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The ANTI-MONOPOLY Game plot
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Minority rules:
Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.
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What this means is we only need 10% of the population to understand how these few individuals are robbing us and enslaving us to transform the narrative society believes in, to stop them.
Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.
CLICK HERE for more
What this means is we only need 10% of the population to understand how these few individuals are robbing us and enslaving us to transform the narrative society believes in, to stop them.
The game Monopoly was a favorite of my brothers, friends and mine when young and played it often, but I never imagined it had such a twisted history.
I think it is telling it was a woman, Elizabeth Magie Phillips who actually invented it to criticize this self-destructive tendency of the capitalist system, but its purpose was completely turned into the opposite by someone else who "monopolized" it for their devious purposes. What originally was a "leftist" game, was changed into a promotion for creating Monopolies, while making illegal large profits with it. RZ
Inventors, Impostors and Corporate Greed.
This is a tale right out of today’s headlines about corporate greed and malfeasance in which life imitates art – real life monopolism imitates the game of Monopoly. This is what happened in a nut shell.
Before Anspach started to investigate the history of Monopoly to gather evidence in the trademark infringement suit brought by the produces of Monopoly, it was accepted by everyone that Monopoly was invented in 1932 by an unemployed man named Darrow who placed it with Parker Brothers. His inspirational story was hyped into an American success epic about a poor man defying the odds of the Great Depression and becoming a self-made millionaire in our land of opportunity. But Anspach discovers that the story is a scam to cover up a corporate fraud with which a company took a game out of the public domain and monopolized it through a fraudulent patent. Anspach’s research and rectification of history has been validated by the courts.
The monopolizing concept which characterizes Monopoly was invented in and about 1904 by a populist, woman named Elizabeth Magie Phillips who however did not commercialize it. Left-wing professors called it monopoly (lower cap “m” like chess) and taught it to their students as a lesson in the evil of monopolism. They thought erroneously that the players would understand that one got rich in the game by monopolizing real estate, utilities, and railroads and then profiteering from sky-high prices and utility rates. The students passed it on to others and it became a folk game played on homemade boards all over the Eastern United States.
In about 1931, monopoly arrived in Atlantic City where a group of Quaker teachers put Atlantic City street names on it, created the prices so well-known now, and replaced the auction system with fixed prices so that children could play it. This change explains why Monopoly has become the world’s best-selling board game year after year because children play it and then teach it to their children.
An acquaintance of theirs, Charles Darrow, copied the game surreptitiously and sold it to Parker Brothers claiming that he was the inventor but the company learned immediately that this was a lie. But then Parker Brothers ran into marketing problems because its Monopoly was outsold by another publication of the folk game offered at a lower price. To get rid of the competition and monopolize monopoly, it had Darrow get a fraudulent invention patent which earned it about an extra one billion dollars in monopoly profits. The company then embarked on a brilliant cover-up of the existence of the folk game monopoly. A part of this operation was to suppress the real history of the game and substitute the story of an All-American hero whose ingenuity and drive raised him from rags to riches.
The company also neutralized Elizabeth Magie Phillips from spilling the beans by promising to make her other game which had an anti-Landlords theme into a best-seller. She was then betrayed by the company and airbrushed out of history.
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I think it is telling it was a woman, Elizabeth Magie Phillips who actually invented it to criticize this self-destructive tendency of the capitalist system, but its purpose was completely turned into the opposite by someone else who "monopolized" it for their devious purposes. What originally was a "leftist" game, was changed into a promotion for creating Monopolies, while making illegal large profits with it. RZ
Inventors, Impostors and Corporate Greed.
This is a tale right out of today’s headlines about corporate greed and malfeasance in which life imitates art – real life monopolism imitates the game of Monopoly. This is what happened in a nut shell.
Before Anspach started to investigate the history of Monopoly to gather evidence in the trademark infringement suit brought by the produces of Monopoly, it was accepted by everyone that Monopoly was invented in 1932 by an unemployed man named Darrow who placed it with Parker Brothers. His inspirational story was hyped into an American success epic about a poor man defying the odds of the Great Depression and becoming a self-made millionaire in our land of opportunity. But Anspach discovers that the story is a scam to cover up a corporate fraud with which a company took a game out of the public domain and monopolized it through a fraudulent patent. Anspach’s research and rectification of history has been validated by the courts.
The monopolizing concept which characterizes Monopoly was invented in and about 1904 by a populist, woman named Elizabeth Magie Phillips who however did not commercialize it. Left-wing professors called it monopoly (lower cap “m” like chess) and taught it to their students as a lesson in the evil of monopolism. They thought erroneously that the players would understand that one got rich in the game by monopolizing real estate, utilities, and railroads and then profiteering from sky-high prices and utility rates. The students passed it on to others and it became a folk game played on homemade boards all over the Eastern United States.
In about 1931, monopoly arrived in Atlantic City where a group of Quaker teachers put Atlantic City street names on it, created the prices so well-known now, and replaced the auction system with fixed prices so that children could play it. This change explains why Monopoly has become the world’s best-selling board game year after year because children play it and then teach it to their children.
An acquaintance of theirs, Charles Darrow, copied the game surreptitiously and sold it to Parker Brothers claiming that he was the inventor but the company learned immediately that this was a lie. But then Parker Brothers ran into marketing problems because its Monopoly was outsold by another publication of the folk game offered at a lower price. To get rid of the competition and monopolize monopoly, it had Darrow get a fraudulent invention patent which earned it about an extra one billion dollars in monopoly profits. The company then embarked on a brilliant cover-up of the existence of the folk game monopoly. A part of this operation was to suppress the real history of the game and substitute the story of an All-American hero whose ingenuity and drive raised him from rags to riches.
The company also neutralized Elizabeth Magie Phillips from spilling the beans by promising to make her other game which had an anti-Landlords theme into a best-seller. She was then betrayed by the company and airbrushed out of history.
Read More....
