Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism. Elizabeth J. Maggie Phillips was an American game designer writer, and feminist who was the creator. She invented The Landlord's Game, the precursor to Monopoly, to illustrate the teachings of the progressive era economist Henry George. Despite it all, the origins of capitalism came from racial capitalism. The concept of racial capitalism asserts that racialized exploitation and capital accumulation are mutually reinforcing. Racial capitalism created the modern world system. During slavery, Black humans were seen as valuable for the profits that they made. As humans, they were devalued, dehumanized, and disposable. But the enslaved were the quintessential essential workers. They were essential for capital, but their lives are expandable to this day.