Elizabeth Magie designed the board game that became Monopoly — on purpose, as a warning about how monopolies destroy society. It got stolen, watered down into a celebration of the exact thing it was built to criticize, and sold by another man as his own invention for decades before the truth came out.


Meanwhile, Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1902 and got a rejection letter telling her it had “no commercial value” — right before the auto industry exploded and started using her exact idea for free the moment her patent expired. Two women, two dead-on ideas, and two very different ways of getting written out of the credit.


Once again, rage inducing…we are sorry. Also we won’t be using this script format ever again - you’re welcome in advance. 🫶🏻🙄


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