Why You'll Never Achieve The American Dream
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Crazy, my spidey senses went up around the criticism for trickle down economics, by the end it seemed like a total cry-baby video against capitalism and then gaslighting fascism as our inevitable doom because what... we are not communist enough?!
"Boo hoo, because captilism..." Yet you are a "grass roots" video producer? Sounds like you are doing great achieving your own version of the American dream where you have the freedom to create your own entity and attempt to make an income from it.
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Baby boomers benefit off of the fake American dream!!! You’ll own nothing and be happy!!!!
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American dream 😅🤣😂😆😄😅🤣😄😂
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How I achieved the American dream.
I am smart and I didn't require college to affirm that. I taught myself linear programing. I learned to read well and to use math well, something that eludes about 80% of American high school grads. By mostly avoiding college I not only saved a lot of money, I started my career earlier. 2/3 of American college attendees never even get a job that requires a diploma.
I married young. Me and my spouse shared a compulsion to speak truth to power. More often than not, coupled with strong ethics, that gets you ahead.
I regard having lots off money and spending same to be work, so I never self-sabotage by spending too much. If my basic needs are taken care of, I am happy and grateful.
I got lucky getting a $1M house for a $50K mortgage and $14K down.
I automated my job searches so I never had to worry about having a job.
I retired better off than 90% of Americans, despite starting adulthood poor.
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The American Dream is OVER, and it has been over for at least 40 years. If someone cannot be a simple gardener (someone that simply goes around town and cuts lawns) and buy his or her single-family home, complete with a front and back lawn, the American Dream is OVER.
Stats on income brackets:
https://www.marketwatch.com/guides/business/average-salary-by-age/
I'm 36 and have never voted because I already knew it doesn't change anything.
Rising cost of education:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rising-cost-of-college-in-u-s/
And now the conservative’s new dumb argument is “well at least you don’t live in Somalia or Afghanistan”
Student loan debt:
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/student-loan-debt
They never put how do you change it and take it over from them
Gig work
https://allworknow.com/10-impressive-gig-economy-statistics-the-rise-of-a-new-workforce/#:~:text=The%20gig%20economy%20accounts%20for,not%20those%20of%20traditional%20employment.
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The American Dream is alive and well. It’s just been redefined. The real dream is living successfully paycheck by paycheck and keeping credit card debt under $3K. Oh not to mention being able to pay taxes for everything. Just redefined. I’m sure that’s what our sociopathic government says or will start saying eventually. It’s a shame I can’t be among the <1% of wealthy crooks who believe the White American Dream from the 1950s is alive and unchanged.
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Why they say dog instead of cat not all of us r dog people because dogs r more maintenance than cats geez
@AmandaYee-yn9dkThe american dream isnt dead. Most Americans just got too cynical and lazy to actually try to attain it. Oh well. More for the rest of us.
@bradyodad9639The depth and production of this video is top notch 👌🏾
@valentinemelly2138그럼에도 나에겐 미국은 기적의 땅이다.
@이름성-n8nMy mom who came from Yemen yet she buy a house and become rich
@DestinedMC-n6rIs the American dream really achieveable?
@TheRedactedLifeMuch of the problems of average Americans today can be linked back to corporations, specifically, their consolidation of power and wealth over the last 50 years. We have increasingly less competition because businesses and industries consolidate into anywhere from a dozen to 1 massive mega conglomerates, working together to create function monopolies, duopolies, or oligopolies. This is how labor unions can get broken up, how costs can, and have greatly exceeded the rise inflation sets the price of a commodity at, how regulations for various protections related to ethics or the environment can get lifted, and how our government can become complacent to societal issues due to money.
The goal really is to get the right kind of government in (particularly younger generations), and then have that government fight for the supermajority of Americans, for instance, anti trust investigations and action, all so that we may once more have the possibility of attaining the American dream
The american dream is still possible just start a business and invest in stocks and trade also have several side hustles and buy a affordable starter home yu can own a home as soon as your 18
@titanfishyIt’s either communism or barbarism…
@alexbertrand8468American dream exists for a work slave and incredible luck in the job market.
@Danny328DT😂😂only the insidious Cheshire grin lingers on at your gullibility in the American dream(for would be migrants,and migrants)
@am-disincarnateThere is no American dream. The large majority of Americans will never realize there American dream. The American dream is a crock of shit made up to fool the masses into joining a capitalist system to cheat them out of their hard earned wages. When only 2% of Americans control all the banks, land, industry, fiscal power it's easy to screw the less fortunate out of their money, repossess their homes, raise the taxes etc. Capitalism is really economic "Shy Lock". 😢😢😢
@patrickciacco1083Any system that goes too far will end up in corruption, whether it is capitalism, socialism, or any other ism.
@WTF504-d8rDude, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Spewing nonsensical socialist fearmongering propaganda to impressionable young people and disguising it as socialist hope. You should be ashamed of yourself. Do yourself a favor and research the "National Socialist German Workers' Party". What you are spewing is the exact same nonsense they spewed to the desperate people of Weimer Republic in the 1930s. Unbelievable !
@TracyAcuffResults in masses running for the dream life only few would ever live.
@GlayreI’m loving the population crisis, hopefully we all die off. Humanity deserves extinction due to corruption and greed.
@FrancoTwoTwoFourExcellent video that explains how capitalism wasn't designed to work for everyone.
@Pico_Faradcue the george carlin quotes
@caseyjones5145He pays for it.
@WalterDill-d5n7bIt's funny tbh. A country which Has the reserve Currency of the world in the world's wealthiest time can't provide it's measly 200Million citizens a decent standard of living. What an absolute joke. Doesn't it tell you anything about full blown capitalist economy? We have to have a mixed economy where we push every private corporations we can to be State owned Enterprises. Not all but everything we realistic can.
@tharunsachin01It's funny tbh. A country which Has the reserve Currency of the world can't provide it's measly 200Million citizens a decent standard of living. What an absolute joke. Doesn't it tell you anything about full blown capitalist economy? We have to have a mixed economy where we push every private corporations we can to be State owned Enterprises. Not all but everything we realistic can.
@tharunsachin01I am half way in this video and this is just stright up lies.... someone making $150K a year can have a home and kids in most 50 states bro. This content is made to strike fear in peoples hurts.
@thewarintokyoWe need muscular enforcement of the guardrails required for capitalism to reach its promise: Estate taxes, strong, anti-trust enforcement, progressive tax rates, campaign finance reform, eliminating the structure that makes it more profitable to be a financial intermediary than to manufacture.
@geerhoarBetter dead than red.
@invictussocietySo for the last 70 years when we’ve added more regulation and such it’s the capitalism that is causing it. Dumb biased videos.
@openyourmind2840American are only a Nightmare since world exist😂😂😂
@sandroparola7327The American Dream died between 1968 and 1975. From the death of industrial age until The free trade agreement and the loss of many many jobs in the United States. Many towns became ghost towns and people had no jobs and had lost hope. Now the country is almost lawless. The news agencies have split the country in half. An open border which let millions of people in did not help the situation at all. There is no more America. I thank God I got to live during the time when there was one.
@Goatcity66Did Abraham Lincoln die for this shit?
@THMD177Pure Evil male CEOs, just like #brianthompson.
@reichen609I know people who live the American Dream, they own homes, are millionaires, got 6 fig jobs. I tried for this dream but lost! Went in the Army got abused, worked for a multimillion dollar company got abused, etc. Some win, others lose.
@user-jh9et1en8gOf course it still exists today...for boomers
@cate87934If the enemies are destroying the American dream, what are they trying to replace it with?
@howardmencini3040The American dream? More like the American nightmare.
Why did it say at the start that the Americans can have two holidays in a year when they’re only allowed 2 weeks of holidays a year?
The american dream was invented by edward bernays. It was mainly promulgated in the average mind post war GI bill outbuild in the 40"s-70's.
In the year 2000 an essay was published An Underground History of American Education. John Taylor Gatto - he explains this better than anyone I have read
or listened to.
New American Dream is owning 1 BTC
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