An Interesting Twist

First of all I would like to say that the monopoly activity we as a class did today was fun, informative, and shocking. In my group there was one upper class, one middle class, one working class, and one lower class person. I was the person that represented the middle class.

The person in the upper class started with 3,000 dollars which was double the money of the middle class, triple the money of the working class, and six times more than the lower class. Naturally the upper class person got to role first, and on the first role landed on a property. Without hesitation they bought their first property. I, being the middle class, landed on a lower rated property and bought the property without hesitation. But for those in the working and lower class that landed on a property always seemed to hesitate before buying a property and most of the time they would give it up for auction. If one of the properties went for auction it was usually a bid between in the middle and the upper class. But 9 time out of ten the person of the upper class would always out bid the person in the middle class and would most definitely out bid the working and the lower class.

The person of the lower class could only buy properties on one side of the board with the lower rates, the person in the working class could only buy properties on two sides of the board with the lowest rates and the middle class could only buy properties on three side of the board with the rates. The person of the upper class could buy any and all the properties on the board including the railroad and utilities in which the other three classes cannot purchase.

Obviously we can equate what is happening in this game of monopoly to real life. Those in the upper and sometimes even in the middle class have way more advantages than those in the working or lower class.  For an example those in the middle class an upper class have more options about going to college, whether that’s going to college in general or, especially to the upper class, going to a more expensive or widely known college such as Harvard. Not saying that those in the working class or the lower class don’t go to college, it’s just the chances are that they don’t because college can be quite costly and those in these classes probably chose working in order to raise their families.