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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

George Carlin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 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