• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    If you want to live the American Dream, you’ve got to be asleep.

    George Carlin

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      10 months ago

      Just as a positive note… the American Dream isn’t about getting a house and being rich… it’s about the possibility of someone who is poor to be able(even allowed) to rise up to some measure of success in a way that just was not possible or very unlikely in other countries.

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        10 months ago

        Probably, that’s what it meant a hundred years ago … but over the past many decades in popular culture, the American Dream has meant that everyone has a chance of becoming filthy rich and a multi millionaire