Share the Marbles

    I have learned about the Game of Marble in my Psychology class and I found it was very interesting at that time. I do not believe that there is any perfect equality in the society since all people are striving for their own profits. It is common that people want to get payments but do not want to much many efforts. Some people are indeed more weathier than the rest of us, in different ways. Some of them gain their wealth from heritage and some of them might earn incomes from hard working. I do not believe that it is fair or efficient to charge the wealth in order to help the poor.
    I have encountered many times from past experiences that group members tried to extract from the most responsible and talented members. I used to be in a psychology research group with several undergraduate students and graduate students and our main topic was "how does the feeling of emotion affect peoples' behaviors". However, our group members came from different areas in the psychology department; therefore, many of us did not have strong backgrounds in this field. We relied on those graduate students who were more expert in the topic. To be detailed, they needed to do most of the research and tests. They assigned readings for us in order to give us more backgrounds about the research area; however, many students even did not do those readings because they believed that graduate students would finish up the research in any way. In the end, we did not complete the research successfully. From this experience, I no longer believe that it was efficient for some people to contribute more into tasks even though they might be at the prior position. If the professor could give all of us more time understanding the research topic and accumulating knowledge, I believed that we could do much better.
    As a result, I believe governments or organizations are not supposed to ask the more capable people to contribute more but given the same share of profits for all participants.