RE: "The American Dream" is just a myth we tell ourselves
April 16, 2019 at 4:28 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2019 at 4:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
People sometimes jump off the skyway and live, too.
The american dream isn't the notion that a few people who do right can get lucky, it isn't even the idea of becoming a 1%. It's about the accessibility of the middle class ideal. Winning the lottery can put you in the middle class or the 1%, that happens too..but it isn't the american dream, whereas the data shows that actually reaching that goal is increasingly becoming an issue of winning a different kind of lottery. Even those demographics for which the american dream was once a reality are finding it less and less so.
The american dream isn't the notion that a few people who do right can get lucky, it isn't even the idea of becoming a 1%. It's about the accessibility of the middle class ideal. Winning the lottery can put you in the middle class or the 1%, that happens too..but it isn't the american dream, whereas the data shows that actually reaching that goal is increasingly becoming an issue of winning a different kind of lottery. Even those demographics for which the american dream was once a reality are finding it less and less so.
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