The company Hasbro, which manufactures the popular game Monopoly, has recently taken an online poll and used the results to determine a lineup change in monopoly tokens. The classic boot, wheelbarrow, and thimble will no longer be a part of modern Monopoly sets and have relinquished their reign to the t-rex, rubber ducky, and penguin. Monopoly rose in popularity during the 1930s, a dark time for America due to the Great Depression. Due to the times, game sets came with the board, cards, and paper money- not the playing pieces. People would use small toys or objects, such as thimbles and bracelet charms.
This is pretty frikkin cool. Monopoly obviously has strong ties to America's perpetuated "rags-to-riches" mentality, as well as the reality of the wealthy profiting from the poor who are barely able to skim by, but I hadn't directly connected the pieces to the Great Depression.
Source:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/the-forgotten-meaning-of-monopoly-tokens/519996/
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