It is not permanently broke, please read the rules precisely.

We have given this game despite the rather bad reviews our youngest at Easter and did not regret it. The game is clearly better than the reviews that are based on an incorrect assumption statements. The little one (9 years) had a lot of fun with the game, of course, because of Spongebob Edition, all the figures are of course well known to him.
5 of 6 previously existing reviews indicate that the game is not very well thought out, because you're constantly broke. So for us there was no one in the games broke (but only after we had read the rule exactly). Periodically come payday fields and you do not according to the rule precisely land in these areas, because even if one has also rotated payday is (as the Los Field in Monopoly). So you get money regularly for the chosen profession, anytime again a payday field has been exceeded. And after reading this rule exactly, there was no bankruptcy issue more, enough money for the profession to compensate for all the expenses. And then it all makes sense and as I said a lot of fun.