In the five bar percentile of the shares of wealth and using 20 chairs, with around 20 classmates to represent it was understandable of what the chairs shows me. Below the 60% percentile, and shown in the chairs, which was around 6 or 7 chairs, and the students sitting in their representing the people that is in 40-60% and lower was really compacted. Those people were struggling to get enough space for them to sit in and that shows how people have to struggled in real life to be in that percentile and not go down any further but rise up. With the compeititions, like fighting for a chair, everybody in that percentile is having a difficult time to raise themselves higher. However, with percentile higher than 40%, the people all get their own chair or shares of wealth they own. They do not have to struggle or worried they might lose it in the example with the chairs. But I think in the real world, those people still have to worried about keeping their shares of wealth and not do anything wrong to the people that has a bigger shares of wealth because if they do something wrong like fight with the richer people, the rich people can strip them off of their shares of wealth. And of course, the people have to be smart to get in the percentile they wanted. I think the people in the lower than 40% is still in that percentile or going lower is because they do not have the courage to fight back to the rich people. The rich people have power over them and the poor people can only admire them from below and not think of a way to over throw them although I think it is hard for them to do anything unless they are serious about it.
When the class played the musical chairs the first time, and the song was played, I think many people was in a state of tension because they never know when the music would stopped and when they might get kicked out. The ones that are competitive would nudged and push others away so they would get the chair and not lose. Similarly, in the real world, people have to pushed through the others however way to get to the top and have to be the competitive type to win. Then when there were names on the musical chairs, and only the people can sit turn out to be unfair because the people with the names don't have to worry about getting kicked out unless all their chairs are gone. However, I think there is always going to be a chair, or a spot in the real world because things have to be balanced out in the world so it is not like everybody that has no name is going to lose. There is always the ups and downs of getting rich. In the game, if the chairs are gone one by one, there would be more poor people and then they would start taking over. But unless it is a large amount of people, I don't think there would be a fight because we are taught in school to not touch others' things without permission. I think the game would be more realistic if there were times where the chairs are taken away and then put back plus more chairs to show more panic and competitiveness in the people.
I think it is both the poor people's fault and not their fault because it is a mix or it depends on the situation they were put in that made them became poor or poorer. It is the poor people's fault if they are the ones that made themselves became poor such as using all their money on useless things. I think competitveness is one of the strengths that the poor people lack because they can compete with their needs, like getting the food and clothing at a cheap price in a race against the other poor people. However, with their class status, they cannot argue or fight back with the rich people because the rich people has the power to defeat the poor people. I do not think it is the fault of the poor people that they become poor because there is also the environment issues and the economy issues that affected them and then they become poor because of reasons such as losing money from stocks or had to be fired forcefully. Similar to the chairs, if the poor people have a sense of and the stubbornness to not lose then they might be able to add back the chairs they lost and add more. I think the chairs also represent the number of people that is becoming poor like the chairs disappearing after each round because there's always a person that loses.
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