: Is the American Dream still achievable? 🇺🇸

My take: It’s not gone, but it’s definitely harder now. High prices, low wages, and expensive housing make the climb tougher than it used to be. People can still make it—but it takes more struggle, more luck, and more support than before.

What do YOU think? 👇🔥

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FoxyGoddess · 51-55, F

I think to reach it, you are going to have to do a lot of hours of work a week (excess of 60 hrs a week) and only buy necessities. That's a struggle and tends to make life undesireable.

Is it possible? Sure, but the price is going to be a person's vibrancy and health.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@FoxyGoddess you can have both. I may be wrong, but I think I do.

FoxyGoddess · 51-55, F

@samueltyler2 maybe if you already have savings and property now. At this moment, without either of those, you will struggle.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@FoxyGoddess when i grew up, we had food and nothing, and love and an educational and work ethic, but little else. I tried to stay humanistic but worked crazy hours to earn my place in society.

FoxyGoddess · 51-55, F

@samueltyler2 Yeah, but even still, things were working in your favor as you greww up. Those entering adulthood now, do not have any of those things today. The earlier generations made it literally impossible for them to accomplish what you did.

So if you are judging from your experience, you are working with a past understanding that doesn't apply to today.