Poverty Activities

In class last week we did activities to visually express how wealth and poverty is in America. Before the activities we learned about the percentages of people who are poor and who has the wealth. Basically there a very very handful of Americans that have the most wealth and many Americans are poverty. The first activity we played musical chairs, which the chairs represented opportunities in life. Us students represented people in life. There were people fighting for chairs and there were some who did not fight at all. The significance fighting for it demonstrates how there are limited opportunities in life, therefore people have to fight to make it to the top. Those who gave up, will never make it in life because, nothing is given to them. The chairs was not given to us, but we tried the best we can to always find one. Nothing in this world is given to you, so you have to either cheat, by playing the government system, or do what they say. The second round of musical chairs, there was tape on the chairs. When the music stopped and i sat on the one with tape, i realized there was a name on it which was not mine, therefore i was out. I know it was a game but i felt some type of way about it. How come only certain people got the chairs? I didn't even have any choice or have a chance to get it. That illustrates how it is much easier for the rich to get richer and they barely have to work as hard to get it. They get richer and richer because as the game went on, there were more chairs that belong to the same person and many people were getting out, quicker than the first round. The rounds symbolizes years and as the years continue to go on, the poor rapidly become poorer, while the rich rapidly become richer. If this pattern continues, our society will therefore become a social democracy and follow into marxist theory about the poor will over ride the system.