Monopoly began as a game designed to show the problems with landlords.

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An early board for The Landlord's Game, the forerunner of Monopoly
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1904

Monopoly began as a game designed to show the problems with landlords.

Yes. Monopoly grew out of The Landlord's Game, which Lizzie Magie patented in 1904 to show how land rent concentrates wealth. The lesson was meant to be a warning, not a goal.

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McDonald's makes most of its franchise money from rent, not burgers.

Rent is the largest revenue category McDonald's reports from franchised restaurants, ahead of royalties. That does not mean rent is most of all corporate revenue, or that every franchise follows the same property arrangement.

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1889

Nintendo was founded in 1889 to sell handmade playing cards.

Nintendo traces its origins to Fusajiro Yamauchi making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto in 1889. Its first home video game machines arrived in 1977, nearly nine decades later.

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