Create a game concept, like a card game or dice game or board games like that of Trouble or Candyland or Monopoly
Part 1
Create a game concept, like a card game or dice game or board games like that of Trouble or Candyland or Monopoly (but not a replication of Monopoly), representing one of the U.S.’s historical economies – Agricultural, Industrial, or Post-industrial/Information (including work and/or nature of working) – AND a current or idealized (as in the levels of convergence) world economic-political system – Capitalism or Socialism. The purpose of this assignment is for you to learn and apply the differences between socialism and capitalism.
Required Components:
- A Name for your game which reflects your chosen U.S. Economy and economic-political system
- Rules (at least 5) accurately and clearly reflecting your chosen world economic-political system (capitalism/socialism ideal or real) and historic economy (agriculture/industrial/information) and nature or type of work.
In your submission which can be a paragraph or a list, please share the basic idea of the game you create. Be sure to tell me the name, and be clear about the economic-political system and the historic U.S. economy, along with the associated nature of work or different ways of working.
Here are some helpful (and important) hints:
U.S. Economies and Nature of Work
- Agricultural characterized by:
- Stratified workforce/cheap labor
- Innovations to farming and livestock management
- Expanding divisions of labor and community/town-like focus
- Industrial characterized by:
- Mechanization – manual to machine labor
- Growth of cities, complex divisions of labor
- Immigrants, women, and children expand workforce
- Corporations and worker alienation
- Information (Post-Industrial) characterized by:
- Knowledge (information created and used) and Service (to clients or business) sectors
- Shrinking agricultural and manufacturing sectors
- Micro chip and Moore’s Law
Part 2:
If You Could Quit Your Job, Would You?
Walking along the beach one bright morning you trip over a hidden piece of driftwood. On all fours, a bright metallic spark of light escapes from the sand below searing your eyes. Like a blinded archeologist you clench your eyelids together while sweeping away the warm sticky yellow grains until your hand settles on something hot and smooth.
“Are you done rubbing my lamp or should I come back later?” You whip your head around. A lumpy blue cloud with arms and a smiling face stands above you.
“My god you’re… you’re a…”
“I’m a genie, yes. Now how about you stand up and let’s talk about what I can do for you.”
“Do I get three wishes?”
“Nope. Not that kind of genie. Get up. Brush yourself off and get ready to listen carefully.” Rising to your feet you subtly grab a piece of your hip and pinch down hard. You don’t wake up. This is happening.
“As the saying goes kid, time is money.” Genie says arms folded. He starts in while you brush yourself clean. “I have been to the future and I know how you will live your life and how it will come to an end- well for our purposes here, the more important point is that I know *when* it will end.”
“Wait, how I die?” Genie raises his hand.
“Can’t give you that. Plus, knowing your fate only imprisons the rest of your life; just ask Oedipus and Cronus. What I offer you is the opposite of that. I want to give you… freedom.”
“I am prepared to give you all of the money you will earn over the rest of your life. Take this offer and you’ll never have to sell another hour of your life to your employer. I will return ten more times over the remainder of your life each time with 1/10 of the money you are set to earn over the remainder of your career.”
“Accept my offer and you are free to do anything you like with your time on Earth. Keep working if you like. Volunteer, travel, paint, or binge watch Netflix, it’s up to you. You would finally be truly free to do what you want. However, in return, every time you see me, before I give you your money, I’m going to painlessly remove one of your fingers.”
“So, do we have a deal?”
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