EVOLUTION OF THE
MONOPOLY
BOARD GAME
Monopoly was originally designed as an educational game to teach players about the root of inequality -land. Objective: buy as many properties as possible. Rents collected can be used to buy more property. Inequality quickly snowballs as the rising value of real estate concentrates in the hands of a few, just as it did during the 2008 economic crash. We are playing a real life game of Monopoly and suffering the consequences. There is an alternative though. We can play by “The Prosperity Rules.”
THE MOST VITAL RESOURCE
If people don’t have access to land, they don’t have access to food.
AFRICA
Every year, $50 billion USD in aid
HITCHHIKING AFRICA
For the better part of a muggy summer, I was cooped up in a dingy molecular biology lab at Cape Town University.
