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The Morbidly Rich Have Killed the American Dream (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 1 week ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

American dream, lol. The first paragraph phrases it better:

the lid of the coffin in which the “American Dream” was long ago laid to rest has finally been sealed shut.

But I'd still argue that the American Dream has always been just a dream. A cynical dream. It always required ignoring the 999 others who didn't make it, most of them in abject poverty. In other words "climbing over dead bodies to get to the top".

Or:

U.S. social mobility, which never did measure up to its mythic renderings.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The American Dream excluded blacks, natives, and women from the beginning

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Which is why the whites racists want it back. Basically MAGA in a nutshell.