Monopoly Class

This week in class we played monopoly based on social class with regulated rules. For my groups case, the richer only became richer and the poor became poorer while everyone seemed to remain in their original social class. This just goes to prove how hard it is to move between social classes in society. Typically if you start out with money, if you're born into it, it is easier to become successful and harder to lose big. Those who play smart, take risks, and have some luck are those who tend to move up in social class. Same goes for real life. This game was a perfect example to show the structure of the economic ladder and just how difficult it is to move out of poverty or out of wealth. For some people this may be a huge let down while for others it is more of a safety blanket. But there are those cases in which people move down in social class, but that is mostly due to poor decisions with a bit of bad luck too. Also, those people who started off with more property were able to gain more from rent and also able to afford more land. This just goes to show how big companies survive at a higher rate as opposed to privately owned ones. There are mass branches of target and its great success while it beats out those smaller businesses trying to become a part of the business world. However there are those few cases where these small stores do survive, yet not as often as the chain ones. Basically we should not look down on those in poverty because most likely it is not their fault, we should rather try to help them.