Yogan's Journey to Life

Video Games about managing money and the economy.   Tropico 4 and Simcity were games I played that taught me aspects about our economy. How people in charge need to make sure there is a positive flow of money. What is interesting though is that as the population of a city increases the number of jobs need to be increased otherwise you will have unemployment. If there are people without jobs, they won’t receive money. And if they don’t receive money, they will turn to a life of crime. So the best way to combat crime is to make sure everyone has a job. In the city though, the population is always increasing because people are moving in and people are having children. So in the game, I am forced to continuously make up jobs for people to do, even if there is an overflow of money already. It would be great in this game if I can have people share in doing the same jobs that already exist, and equally receive the same amount of money for less work. Because in reali...

--> Film review: Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20 th Century               So I watched this film, which you can access here . There are many points that are raised so im going to pick one point which was not fully addressed in the film. The film mentioned how frustration was a key component in an anger response where frustration was taken out on others. This I believe is a commonsense point where we as individuals have seen at one time that someone was angry and expressing that anger in their voice or actions when interacting with another being and in doing so find some relief. So the point in the film was raised that adolescents who fight in school were feeling frustrated at not achieving what they desired as teacher approval and system approval. The film mentions how children at an early age, and so are very vulnerable, are made subject to a system where the only purpose is to perform said acti...