Living in poverty is hard and stressing; that’s what I learned from playing the simulation “Spent”. Before playing this simulation, I thought that poverty is easy to overcome, just get a good job and don’t spend a lot of money. After playing this simulation, though, my thoughts changed. It’s actually hard to not spend a lot of money. Gas, heating, electricity, health care, food, transportation, insurance, cell phone coverage, and shelter are all necessities that a person from modern times needs, and these in total cost much more than a person living on minimum wage has money, and I experienced how it’s like living like that. In this simulation I had to step into the shoes of a single parent with a child who are living in poverty and make a lot of financial decisions.
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My options were to get rid of it, pay $350, or to give it to a friend. Considering that $350 is about half of my savings, paying so much for a pet is not smart. I went with giving the pet to a friend because I don’t have to pay the expensive fee for it and I don’t have to send it to a shelter where they might not take care of it as well as the friend might do. Another hard decision I had to make was when some person came up to me and asked if I want to join a union to get a raise in money. I knew if the plan fails and my boss find out that I am rebelling against him, he would fire me and that I would not get any more paychecks. On the other hand, If the plan works I could get a pay raise. I went with the first option because I did not want to take a risk being fired. One thing I wondered about when doing the simulation was if the child actually liked me or not. I wonder this because I always said no to all of his or her requests. The child's requests were usually expensive and if I said yes to all of them, I wouldn't have money to last the
My options were to get rid of it, pay $350, or to give it to a friend. Considering that $350 is about half of my savings, paying so much for a pet is not smart. I went with giving the pet to a friend because I don’t have to pay the expensive fee for it and I don’t have to send it to a shelter where they might not take care of it as well as the friend might do. Another hard decision I had to make was when some person came up to me and asked if I want to join a union to get a raise in money. I knew if the plan fails and my boss find out that I am rebelling against him, he would fire me and that I would not get any more paychecks. On the other hand, If the plan works I could get a pay raise. I went with the first option because I did not want to take a risk being fired. One thing I wondered about when doing the simulation was if the child actually liked me or not. I wonder this because I always said no to all of his or her requests. The child's requests were usually expensive and if I said yes to all of them, I wouldn't have money to last the