Monopoly

This week in class we continued to discuss social class. We played a game of monopoly where each player began in a different social class and earned a different salary. The interesting thing about the game is that it really did mirror real life. Even though each player in my group ended up with more money than they began with, no one moved up in social class. Similar to the criminal cycle, the poverty cycle is never ending. It is very hard to overcome poverty once you are born into it. We do not have a choice of what class we are born into, but we play with the cards we are dealt. I think a major issue dealing with people living in poverty is the lack of medical insurance available. 45 million people in the U.S. live each day without health insurance that just is not right. Something should be done to make it easier and more affordable for every U.S. to have access to health insurance.