• Entropywins
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    807 months ago

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

    • Flying Squid
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      87 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        7 months ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid
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          47 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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            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.

            • Flying Squid
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              67 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.