• 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.