• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      The American dream is to become rich and then do the exploiting yourself.

      They may as well just give up with the American dream and rename it the rules of acquisition. At least then they’d be being honest with themselves.

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      1 year ago

      “It’s called The American Dream because you’d have to be asleep to believe in it.”

      -George Carlin

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      It’s a delusion that workers can work hard and become rich, used by those in power to extract worker skill and dedication.