So, you make no unnecessary expenses in your life and donate all of your spare time and money to helping others? You've never bought a meal that wasn't a little more than the bare minimum standard of food your body needs, clothing beyond the most meager rags? There are all kinds of wastes of money in the world, but this one *does* benefit other people- it is thought provoking. Maybe not in a photo on a blog, but I'm sure in real life this would be striking.
In the game, the piece represents a financial investment that may or may not pay off, a risk, a hope. In life, it is still a large investment, of land, of material, of time, but while in the game the house may generate rent, this house is rendered useless as a symbol.
I don't think its too far of a stretch to imagine that it opens questions about the ownership of property and of land (an abstract notion that isn't known to all cultures), or to the number of houses rendered useless by the mortgage crisis.
So, you make no unnecessary expenses in your life and donate all of your spare time and money to helping others? You've never bought a meal that wasn't a little more than the bare minimum standard of food your body needs, clothing beyond the most meager rags? There are all kinds of wastes of money in the world, but this one *does* benefit other people- it is thought provoking. Maybe not in a photo on a blog, but I'm sure in real life this would be striking.
In the game, the piece represents a financial investment that may or may not pay off, a risk, a hope. In life, it is still a large investment, of land, of material, of time, but while in the game the house may generate rent, this house is rendered useless as a symbol.
I don't think its too far of a stretch to imagine that it opens questions about the ownership of property and of land (an abstract notion that isn't known to all cultures), or to the number of houses rendered useless by the mortgage crisis.