RE: "The American Dream" is just a myth we tell ourselves
April 16, 2019 at 4:58 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2019 at 5:01 pm by Alan V.)
(April 16, 2019 at 4:28 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: 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.
I guess I should have mentioned that both my uncle and my sister became millionaires by hard work, careful investing, and in my sister's case having a great plan and a good idea to sell.
Both lived the American Dream in their own experiences, which I took to mean the opportunity to better oneself financially.
However, I certainly agree that income inequality is making upward mobility more difficult.