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In particular, we want to highlight any games that investigate themes around climate change, climate resiliency, ecology, or solarpunk (including projects in progress). As well as games that have been constructed with durable, ecologically friendly, less wasteful manufacturing, or are otherwise just groovy and thought provoking.

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The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903) (publicdomainreview.org)

submitted 8 months ago by schmorpel to c/boardgames

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Rather relevant. I had no idea 'Monopoly' had an anti-capitalist predecessor.

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[–] Splatterphace@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love how they named the nicer properties after nice places IRL, but for the lower end, it looks like they didn't know any poor areas IRL, so they just made up names that sounded like places "the poors" would live and gather

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Good idea, 'rickety row' sounds like a good recipe against gentrification