The Morbidly Rich Have Killed the American Dream

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it

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  • dublet@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    George Carlin’s bit from the 2005 HBO special “Life is Worth Losing.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=-54c0IdxZWc

    20 years ago…

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    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      His later material is still relevant

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey you should clean this blade or the patient you use it on could catch Tetanus and it’s not safe!

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    • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s not very nice to tetanus.

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The 1% deliberately changed the meaning of the American Dream. For decades, the American Dream was to be solidly, securely middle class. A house, a car, recreation, and enough security that your kids will have it a little better than you do.

  Through popular culture, that changed. Now, the dream is to be a billionaire. The ruling elite have moved the goalposts. With the American Dream permanently out of reach, the peons accept working poverty, and blame themselves for not being rich.

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• Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The American Dream was always a lie that was never meant to actually last, only to entice the population to tie their interests with that of business in the systemic breakdown of community.

  “You don’t need community! You can be an independent family that survives only by the sweat of your own brow! We (owning class businesses) will ‘provide’ all you need! Just work for us to make money so you can buy back the very things that you and your community labor to produce in the first place! Pay no mind to the fact the system fundamentally requires constant inflation of prices plus the suppression of wages in order to raise profit margins year-over-year so we keep the investors (the owning-class, again) happy!”

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 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”.

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  • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Financially obese individuals are ruining it to everyone.

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• PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It only existed if you were a white male WW2 soldier that got the GI bill and an education in the late 40s/early 50s. When wealthy people actually got taxed appropriately as well as CEOs that didn’t make 100x more than their employees. There were loopholes of course but they involved billionaires having to actually do something with their money to benefit society like building libraries.

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• HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The morbidly rich have killed, or seriously wounded America. Not suie which yet but either way things are really not looking good for us right now. We need radical change to turn things around.

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• Stupidmanager@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dreams for thee, not for me. Wealth is a carrot for the poor and uninformed to chase. In the end, only those who cheat or take advantage of others, win.

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• hayvan@piefed.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not really. They are living the American dream. They made it real.

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