When I played the game SPENT, I suppose I survived the month without running out of money. In this game, I was forced to make sacrifices, and decisions that conflicted with my morals and endangered my health. This reinforces what I have learned in our reading about the culture of poverty. The culture of poverty argues that poor people adopt different practices than middle class people in order to survive in bad economic situations. In this game, when I had very limited money, I acted with greater deviance and recklessness than I would have if I had ample money. Everything that my child needed money for, I paid and when my mom was sick, I lent the money. However, I opted out of my grandfathers funeral and put my dog down. At the end, I hit a car and drove away without offering to repair any damages. I tried paying all the bills at the beginning of the game, but quickly was forced to pick and choose. Electricity was the first to go, then the car. Student loans were ignored once, as was dental surgery. Not having the money immediately to pay these bills caused further damage and resulted in more than double the bills down the line. In this sense, I really didnt survive the month with money as I was anticipating great debt in the near future.
