We used to do the same thing, about 20 of us. Guess what? You're 1 out of 21 who had that experience.
The rest of us saw people cooperate to change the rules. Every, single time. You will find same among other teachers at a list dedicated to teaching sociology.
Add that story to the endless stories you recycle that supposedly show how awful the joint it.
Someone here was keeping a list of them. Awesome idea: Wojtek's List of Woes and Wild Generalizations that can't be supported by the evidence.
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>When I was teaching an intro to sociology I had students play a team game.
>I forgot the exact rules, but the idea was that the team that won the first
>round had an increasingly greater chance of winning subsequent rounds,
>unless other people on other teams got together and changed the rules to
>more equitable ones. The latter, however, did not happen. Instead, folk on
>the losing team either tried to join the winning team or altogether lost
>interest in playing the game.