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[–] [email protected] 73 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Become? They call it the American dream because you gotta be asleep to believe it.

[–] ArtVandelay 15 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] radicalautonomy 3 points 7 months ago

Tukeyá, beltalowda?

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Daft_ish 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Which is basically a multimillionaire in today's standards. Unless you mean two junkers and a house in the hood. I'm not opposed to the latter but it's hardly anyone's first choice.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Daft_ish 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I feel you. I have my house in the hood with my two Hondas.

Shit should not be this difficult.

A $200,000 home isn't luxury but it also isn't the American dream.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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