RE: "The American Dream" is just a myth we tell ourselves
April 16, 2019 at 2:06 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2019 at 2:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What broad data like that suggests is that it isn't on account of any personal and correctable deficiency that the poor remain poor. I think that you're underestimating how very much like you any other 23 year old is,. Certain that they can take on the world and beat the stats.
The cynicsm of the poor, despite all of that, is well grounded in reality, a reality which no amount of personal faith can alter. On a lark, I checked the zip code map..hahaha, they nailed it. Kinda wishing I'd been from dakota at this point, I'd be doing even better. The wife is fuckin crushin it, tho. Indicates that my children can expect much the same in their zipcode, where that amount of money is worth alot more.
So that's good news, right? Ultimately that;s what I want for them, a life alot like my own..perhaps without the blips here and there. I don't expect any of them to be doctors or lawyers, lol. I'd be kindof disappointed if they were.
-what was really fun, is checking off other demos boxes and watching half the expectation just fall right the hell off. Had I been the wrong shade of lipstick, or born to the wrong parents..compared to my zip code peers, I'd be trying to raise 4 kids and pay off my commitments on minimum wage.
The cynicsm of the poor, despite all of that, is well grounded in reality, a reality which no amount of personal faith can alter. On a lark, I checked the zip code map..hahaha, they nailed it. Kinda wishing I'd been from dakota at this point, I'd be doing even better. The wife is fuckin crushin it, tho. Indicates that my children can expect much the same in their zipcode, where that amount of money is worth alot more.
So that's good news, right? Ultimately that;s what I want for them, a life alot like my own..perhaps without the blips here and there. I don't expect any of them to be doctors or lawyers, lol. I'd be kindof disappointed if they were.
-what was really fun, is checking off other demos boxes and watching half the expectation just fall right the hell off. Had I been the wrong shade of lipstick, or born to the wrong parents..compared to my zip code peers, I'd be trying to raise 4 kids and pay off my commitments on minimum wage.
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