{"id":6926,"date":"2021-03-29T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:49:38","slug":"blog-post-3-29-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/29\/blog-post-3-29-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 3\/29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The minimum wage simulator was extremely eye-opening. I spent so much time in the beginning just trying to figure out how much time I needed to get water and food&#8230; Apparently, it was a lot more than I could even imagine being possible. Once I kind of figure out some base settings, I thought that I would be able to actually do well and make it work, but I was sorely mistaken. I spent almost an hour trying to get past level 4 but I couldn&#8217;t! It was so frustrating because I wanted to get my people to live longer and it was so heartbreaking that this is real life for hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. I mean how do you even process sitting in your bed in a dorm room playing this game on your laptop after getting d-hall for dinner&#8230;? It is hard to quantify the difference in living between us and people in those conditions. I know that we are so beyond lucky to be here and live this life, but when you put it into that perspective, it makes you feel guilty for not taking as much advantage of it as you can. Like in McAskill&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Doing Good Better <\/em>(in chapter 7 I think, correct me if I am wrong),\u00a0 we are in the best position worldwide to help. I know that we all have our own struggles but I can&#8217;t imagine anyone is so poorly off that they are even close to having to live like this and work so hard just to survive. We need to do the most that we can, whenever we can. I am grateful that there are so many organizations and resources to help us help others. After this experience, I will\u00a0definitely be taking it into consideration for future giving and will take this experience with me and never forget to be grateful for what I have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minimum wage simulator was extremely eye-opening. I spent so much time in the beginning just trying to figure out how much time I needed to get water and food&#8230; Apparently, it was a lot more than I could even imagine being possible. Once I kind of figure out some base settings, I thought that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6929,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/6929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}