Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Time for New Rules

What's the one place on the Monopoly that you always try to own? Boardwalk. Why? Because when you own it and others land on it, you make massive amounts of money. You make others lose their their places, hotels and houses. You are in a "higher class" when you own Boardwalk.
What's wrong with owning Baltic Avenue ("lower class") or New York Avenue ("middle class")? They make less money, especially if you can't afford to own all of the properties in that set.

So, enough about monopoly rules. Real life, that's what we have to worry about. We don't pay, if we can actually afford to pay, rent in monopoly money. We have to work our butts off to pay for anything. We meaning the Baltic Avenue and New York Avenue people. We can't always afford college, which results in a job that makes less than expected. ((Major side note- Take teachers for instance. They go through so many years of college, just to do a job that pays no good amount of money at all. They deserve to earn the most in my opinion. The first advice I got when I said I was going to study to be a teacher -"You don't do it for the money."))

We need to break these bonds that hold us in the class that we were born into. We ideally need a classless society where everything is equal. But, maybe I just dream too much. We need to start from the inside, break barriers in your community now so maybe in the future people can actually move forward.

Go on, start the change.

1 comment:

  1. I totally agree. If we live our whole lives striving to be a Boardwalk resident, we are following the "economic requirements" to have a good life. Not saying there's anything wrong with living on Boardwalk or beyond, but if you feel that that's the only place you can be to be satisfied in your life, that's when there's a problem,

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