It's a timely coincidence to see a new video on Bloomberg about what was the inspiration behind the boardgame played by generations while frequent readers of this site might have been curious about the reason your MesaZona blogger featured the game Mormonopoly so many times about what could be a hyper-local update of the generations-old land development schemes here in Arizona.
Monopoly was designed to teach the 99% about Income Equality.
It's an American classic of working-class ingenuity that The Great Depression helped launch, invented by a 'leftwing feminist". Yikes!
After The Great Recession income, the Upper 1% is doing much better.
All of us are very familiar with the non-profit side of the Church with the buildings of Temples, churches, and the missionary program, but most are not familiar with the LDS Church for-profit companies. I thought it might be good to have fun playing a game with some of the properties that the Church owns. These are investment properties and companies that are income-producing assets.
. . . Many might be surprised to know that the LDS church is the largest non-governmental land owner in the US. . . In a recent fireside at our stake, a Church employee spoke and shared with us that the Church builds more square footage in United States than Walmart. . .
Just like here in MesaProperty Reserve Inc., a real-estate holding company owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,has bought up a number of properties.
What is witness of what the writer of the blog Bare Truth had a revelation about:
"While developing land to subdivide into home lots is one thing, when I learned that the Church has land with plans to develop an entire new city, I was really surprised. . . "
For those that are interested, here is a partial list of some of the other LDS for-profit companies and property holdings from the BareTruth blog - added to ranches, desert lands and livestock holding companies:
Deseret Management Corporation Property Reserve, Inc.
Suburban Land Reserve, Inc
Zion Public Finance Group Deseret Trust Company LDS Family Services Property Reserves Inc. (PRI) "I would be interested in knowing how these companies and properties fulfill the missions of the Church, and with "hastening the work". It might be my lack of understanding but, it seems to be a lot of business as usual. Large land parcels of several thousand acres for agriculture seems like a good thing.. but long-term development, mixed use projects, office, industrial, high rise condos seems more like Monopoly.
Behind the design: This is the inspiration behind Monopoly, the board game played by more than 1 billion people worldwide #tictocnews (Source: Bloomberg)
The earliest known version of Monopoly, known as The Landlord's Game, was designed by an American, Elizabeth Magie, and first patented in 1904 but existed as early as 1902. ... A series of board games were developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land.
Apr 11, 2015 - In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie patented the board game that we now know as Monopoly – but she never gets the credit. Now a ...
My dear Mother created a "Mormonopoly" Game backin the 1980's during a Homemaking Meeting. Everything was handwritten, money was hand-drawn and mimeographed, markers and pens were used. ... The board is a professionally printed quad-fold board, designed on Photoshop.
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