• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      The American Dream has morphed into this “anyone can be rich” idea.

      When I was a kid, it was a house and two cars.

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          8 months ago

          You’re being very hyperbolic. We have a house and two cars. I have around $200 in my bank account. Admittedly, it helps that we do not live in the most desirable part of the country, but we also live paycheck-to-paycheck and have not even ever been hundred thousandaires.

          You can’t be poor and achieve it, but you don’t have to be rich either.

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              8 months ago

              I didn’t mean to suggest that. Housing prices and car prices are ridiculously and unnecessarily high. I’m just saying that the American dream has morphed into something that at least a large proportion of the population can even now achieve into something that almost no one can achieve.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, it was started by rich people looking to increase their wealth and influence and has remained under their control ever since.