How We Can Change the Game
We all like to play games? We all learn how to play and invite others to join with the goal of having a good time. But what if the game is rigged? What if the game doesn't allow most people to win?
We are at the end of a game of Monopoly, all the properties are owned by one or two players who have developed all the hotels and properties and have raised the rent so high that going around the Monopoly board bankrupts all the other players.
In her TEDx Santa Cruz talk, Maria Cadenas helps us understand in simple and relevant ways how our economic system works, or how it doesn't work for most people. It's an unwinnable game, but there are things we can do together to change that.
