Game of Trades

Today we had this game to reflect on the American dream to reveal something crucial about the american dream. The game was about teams having their own resources to start with and must use them to make a home, food, a book, and minerals in order to win. My team lost the game of trading because we weren't willing to trade any supplies even the ones that we didn't need because at the . It was hard to trade supplies that you were currently using to build a house and when we were done using said supplies nobody would trade for them because a.) they didn't need it because they all ready had said supplies, or b.) They wanted supplies that we could not afford to give up because we needed those supplies to make something else like the book. I feel like other mechanics should have been implemented into the game because, in real life people don't just trade to survive, if you're starving and have nothing to offer, or you have something not of worth to anybody around you what else is their left to do but steal to feed yourself and the rest of your family, I mean it's not stealing if you don't get caught.  After we were done using are supplies no one wanted them because they had what we had or, just didn't need any, that made me wish that we could go to war just to obtain the resources we needed. The game was fun, but I think the groups had almost the same starting set ups as the other teams. I mean the winners probably aren't complaining. So what I'd like to think that we could do this again but just with some fixed problems so that trading is always effective in the long run.