Pretending to Be Poor
Professors turn the lives of poor people into a game for well-off college students; plus some other thoughts and links
This was up late last week at the American Mind. “Unless you’ve experienced poverty, it’s difficult to truly understand.” Agreed. The only question is this: Is pretending to be poor for a few hours in a role-playing game “experiencing poverty,” or is it something else altogether, which does nothing meaningful to aid the role-players in deeply comprehend…