Monopoly...American style?

We played monopoly in class, but not the standard monopoly. You know, the communist way. of Everyone starting with thesame amount of money, 2 500's 2 100's... all equal change to get the same proprties, and the same ways to go to jail. We played using hte American economy system. Upper class, starting with nearly 4000 dollars, and all teh railroads.. he Middl class with a few properties and nearly 2000 dollars. the lower class with around 500 dollars and no properties, and hte working class with about 200 dolars and no properties. Not only that... but whne we passed GO, the upper class got 500, middle got 230, lower got about 80, Working got like 40. As you can see if you werent upper class or middle class. there really was no room for advancement in the social class system. I was fortuanate enough to be middle class. I still had no chance of winning the game. But in the beginning i got enough properties to knock out the lower two classes. there was no competition like there is in the original game. every turn the lower classes would pay me rent, small amounts but because they had limited funds it really hurt them. In the end of the class period i would've lost to the upper class "Wasp" I wouldnt of been able to catch up to her wealth with what i had. But this game really related to society today because it makes sense. If your working class. unless by some miracle, there really no chance of you advancing to middle class. you get stuck at the bottom jsut skating by, if you make it at all. but if your in middle class you got a fairly decent chance of staying there and advancing if time goes on long enough. But the quote " The rich get richer, the poor get poorer" really is the dominant status of our economy right now.