Re:American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
by praptak on Sunday December 23, 2012 @02:03PM
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I got the impression that GPs point was that the American Dream is about improving ones own fate (especially when the environment is hard) rather than complaining about unemployment and wages.
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Re:American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
by _delirium on Monday December 24, 2012 @01:13PM
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I think of the American Dream as more structural: the idea that, unlike in countries with strong, hereditary class systems, anyone could succeed in the U.S. with effort, because your success was less tied to your pedigree. Imo, statistics, rather than anecdotes, are a good way of determining the extent to which that's still true.
Re:American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
by eli_gottlieb on Sunday December 23, 2012 @02:54PM
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Great. Then obviously we should make life even harder for the masses so they can achieve even more glory from overcoming the even more overwhelming odds. And if they fail, they deserve what's coming to them!
/sarcasm