How so? I’m living proof that you can still pull off the social mobility part of the american dream.

Arrived in this country with some $3000 to my name, now here we are 5 years later I am little different than any other spoiled coastal US person.

Yes. I believe that someone rich enough to move from Russia (and the correct ethnicity) had only $3000. In those 5 years you also spent $100,000 on an education so that you could get a job that paid you well? Was an education not part of the “$3,000” or are you saying the American Dream is to be very white, gamble with your life, and be very lucky?

you're a white guy that moved from slovenia with a degree already and $3000 in cash. slovenia isn't moldova or romania or ukraine - gdp per capita ppp is 36k. your $3000 is twice the median savings of black people and hispanics in this country

https://www.valuepenguin.com/banking/average-savings-account...

what social mobility? you were middle class and you're still middle class

my family actually immigrated as poor people (refugees) 30 years ago from a shit country (moldova) and we're all doing very well in tech now but that doesn't mean i'm blind to the inequalities faced by systematically marginalized people.