In today’s exercise my group achieved success by winning and getting the prize of bagels for tomorrow. We were the quickest to build all of the items before the rest of the teams. The biggest cause of us winning was that we started with much more resources than the other teams. We started with all of the essentials except for polka dot paper and wavy paper. Since we had a surplus of almost all of the ingredients except for the pen and ruler. This made is easy to trade with the other groups. We only had to make two trades the entire day for stuff that we needed, meanwhile the other groups were running around trying to find trades. This lead us to working and creating our elements while the other groups could not operate efficiently. The main problem we had was that not everybody could work, my job was to create the book and I also bartered for polka dot paper. There were not enough jobs to go around and most of the time some people had to look for things to do. When we had all of the resources we needed we did not trade with anybody else. Even though we didn’t need the excess resources. We could have given to the groups for free and it still wouldn’t have been affected but we didn’t want the other groups. This shows that in capitalism people do not help other people succeed even if it doesn’t hurt them. We were competing with the other teams just like in business so if they did well it wasn’t good for us. Also the other teams had to work just as hard, probably harder to yield less results. We didn’t have to work too hard because we were given the essentials to start and succeed from the beginning. No matter how hard the other groups could try they were always at a disadvantage from the beginning to the end.
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