--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Jenny Brown <jbrown72073 at cs.com> wrote:
>
> The development of Monopoly is of particular interest in my
> family because my father invented a board game in the
> 1950's ("Careers") as a partial answer to
> Monopoly, which he thought was teaching children that money
> is the only value. It was a pleasant surprise to learn,
> nearly 50 years later, that the original 'Monopoly'
> was designed to illustrate the bad effects of ownership,
> rent, and speculation.
>