Americans are increasingly unlikely to believe that those who work hard will get ahead and that their children will be better off than they are, according to two recent polls.
It’s not dying because it is already dead
It was never alive in the first place, it’s just a mean of giving some glimmer of false hope while the oligarchs continue being parasites.
I disagree, back in the 60s it was totally possible to find a decent paying job, have a couple of kids, buy a house to store them in, get a new car every few years, send your kids off to school, go on vacations and retire at an age old enough to enjoy some time with the grandkids. Now that really isn’t a reality for the average person.
You don’t think any American generation did better than the previous one through work?
Some generations did better than previous ones due to economic conditions at the time, and this is especially true in the period between WWII and Reaganomics. Some individuals experience both hard work and success, but there are a great many hard working individuals who have no personal wealth to speak of.
As for working hard, (unless I miss your point) - it’s hardly new for older generations to accuse younger ones of not wanting to work.
The American dream has been dead for decades
To be fair, it was barely even attainable by those born stateside in the mid-50s. It might’ve taken the whole thing a couple decades to truly die, but the hopium was laced thick among the children that came after. To this day, few American teens seem to grasp how deep the lie reaches… They’re so fucked.
“That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
- George Carlin
a great philosopher. future humans, or maybe some alien race, will study the words of carlin the way we do socrates, plato, and aristotle.
I don’t think so. Most popular culture gets utterly annihilated by history. It’s a little unsettling how popular things can be and then absolutely forgotten.
The quote is accurate. But man am I tired of seeing it pop up in every thread related to American quality of living going down the shitter the past 30 years
Been dead since I’ve been alive and I’ve been around since the 80s.
Dead since Reagan at least lmao
