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“In a windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two undergrads are playing a Monopoly game that one of them has no chance of winning. A team of psychologists has rigged it so that skill, brains, savvy, and luck—those ingredients that ineffably combine to create success in games as in life—have been made immaterial. Here, the only thing that matters is money.
One of the players, a brown-haired guy in a striped T-shirt, has been made “rich.” He got $2,000 from the Monopoly bank at the start of the game and receives $200 each time he passes Go. The second player, a chubby young man in glasses, is comparatively impoverished. He was given $1,000 at the start and collects $100 for passing Go. T-Shirt can roll two dice, but Glasses can only roll one, limiting how fast he can advance. The students play for fifteen minutes under the watchful eye of two video cameras, while down the hall in another windowless room, the researchers huddle around a computer screen, later recording in a giant spreadsheet the subjects’ every facial twitch and hand gesture.
T-Shirt isn’t just winning; he’s crushing Glasses. Initially, he reacted to the inequality between him and his opponent with a series of smirks, an acknowledgment, perhaps, of the inherent awkwardness of the situation. “Hey,” his expression seemed to say, “this is weird and unfair, but whatever.” Soon, though, as he whizzes around the board, purchasing properties and collecting rent, whatever discomfort he feels seems to dissipate.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Lisa Miller / NY Mag:
http://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/
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while i appreciate you guys covering the killings in latin america, i have no idea what cenk is talking about regarding trans people in “small towns” across the world including america facing a “mortal danger.” that is true, but not more so than anywhere else. i can think of two trans murders in los angeles – where not only i live, but the TYT crew as well? – off the top of my head. and those killings go under reported. before i “passed,” i faced daily, sometimes violent harassment in this city. i had to leave jobs. a group of people once banded together to get me fired. yes, there are dangers to living in small conservative towns, but there are good people in those places too. i just think cenk made it seem like life is drastically different in the big cities for transpeople. it’s not. in my experience, the only thing that makes trans lives better is when trans people fight to make their lives better, on an individual level. whether it is wading through the red tape and paying court fees to change a name or spending $7500 on surgery which i’m about to do, or pursuing a dream job or getting married, whatever. there is no magic place we can do that in complete peace now, because the world as a whole is struggling with transgenderism. so, i just wanted to clarify that.
i’m a huge fan! by the way.
jon