Reply #5: great article, excellent idea for a game [View All]

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Thank you for the link. I think most members of Congress, who spend their days in marble halls, must honestly be unaware that real people have to make this horrible choices every single day. I don't blame them for not having a visceral understanding of what it's like to be poor (except for the ones who deliberately decide to not even think about poor people) because if you don't even see poor neighborhoods or poor people on your way to work, and if you spend your days talking to important people in suits, poverty can easily become just a concept. (Obviously there are exceptions, like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.) This game, and the endless painful choices, really do make it real... you find your heart beating a little faster as you watch your bank balance drop. Highly recommended.