Becoming Homeless

An online game that shows the reality of how easy it can be for one to become homeless just by making simple everyday life decisions. In this game the player is given one thousand dollars for the whole month. The player also has three work options to choose from. One is working in a restaurant that plays very little, but lets the player keep the tips they make. The other option is working in a warehouse where this job requires a lot of heavy duty and pays okay. The last option is working in a office where the pay is the same as working in the warehouse, but hours may change. Next is choosing whether or not the player would like to receive health insurance. The last choice before completely starting the game is deciding where the player …show more content…
So in every situation that I came across where it involved the child I would do what would make the child happy. Even if that meant down the road we would become homeless. So I decided to stay home when the child got sick, let him go to the birthday party with a gift, I went the recital and gave up the opportunity to make fifty dollars, had the child fo to the field trip and much more. Which it all ended up with us becoming homeless because I did not want to the child to feel neglected and not wanted. Having the child be happy all the time led to us being homeless. Which is horrible because it is not the child's fault for wanting to be a kid and not being …show more content…
This game really makes you feel as if you are in the shoes of a low income person with a child. Having to do something that seem really wrong, but are necessary in order to not become homeless. I felt that I did not make to many immoral decision. I replayed countless times, but it seems that once I was put into the low income situation it seemed impossible to get out of it. Maybe if the game had more months added to it then I maybe with a lot of work I would be able to become middle class. As Gregory Mantsios stated in his article Class in America-2012 "the bottom line is that very affluent families transmit their advantages to the next generation and poor families stay trapped.". Most likely I would stay in a low income situation with my child and my and my child's generation would be low class because we are stuck in an endless loop of living paycheck to paycheck and living in debt. With the only of hope of getting an education and then getting out of the cycle. All in all I am grateful that I played this game, it made me more aware as to why people become homeless and how low income people