Don’t let the Billionaires define success. We can create our own definition of the American Dream.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Organize, cooperate, educate, agitate.
Also, most of those billionaires seem miserable. It’s just an endless series of gripes and complaints.
Pretty sure the American Dream at this point is “fuck you, I got mine”.
The famous George Carlin quote about the American Dream is: “That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”.
When did “The American Dream” become about being a mega millionaire? I always thought it was: get a job, work hard, get land, get a retirement at 65, chill till you croak.
I remember a person who had the same reply every time someone told them “thanks for the help.” His reply was always, “your success is my success.”
We should all be like that. I think of that often.
That idea was, quite literally, never anything more than mythology. From the Pilgrims to today’s colonialists. We’ve always been a nation of selfish religious zealots concerned only with our individual success. Manifest Destiny.
I cackled in the recent Martha Stewart documentary when she said taking her company public was the American dream.
I feel like a sucker for starting a cost+markup business with crowdfunding instead of launching a stock or crypto scam.
The issue is convincing people with severe Stockholm syndrome of this.
In my ideal world, insurance wouldn’t be a thing. We could just afford to pay for the things we need. Even when disaster strikes, we’d have enough of a reserve to be okay.
It used to be the American dream, now it’s the American pipe dream.
Everyone would rather blow all their money dreaming of winning the lottery (not just the literal lottery) and becoming extra rich, than pool their resources to make life better for everyone
That was the American Dream, once upon a time. We are long past that point.
it seems like the new American dream is just having fuck you money
Heard someone say the American dream is and always has been to be richer than your neighbor
Capitalism without ethics is really the problem. Like when people have their houses burn down and need a place to stay, someone capitalises on the situation and pushes short term renting prices up. But this was bound to happen as every business wants to lean itself for maximum profit. Unfortunately, that is where we are now.
Can use the world collective when talking about capitalism
YeareaaaaaaaaaRHghGhRreaaaahhhhhhhhhh. Yeah. 👍
Caring for my fellow citizens and those less fortunate? Nah, sounds like anti-Christian communism to me friend.
Greed is good /s
I didn’t know, that kinda sounds a lot like socialism (/s)
Oh void. I thought that was what we were working towards as a society. It didn’t even occur to me that others didn’t think that way, because I’ve always been told (even when I was a kid) that the only way a generation is a failure is if they fail to improve the world somehow (or make it worse).
That dude has the best last name .
This is how we build a utopia for all. When all people aspire to be their best selves and not harm others simply to gain wealth and power. A collective responsibility to build a world where all benefit. It is but a dream
I just wanted to be able to have a car, house and 3 kids with a high school education. It used to be the norm. The country was legitimately stronger because of it.
“But that’s communism!“ – MAGAs, obviously
Seriously how would billionaires even have a clue, there so far removed from our society in terms of the day to day struggles, simple joys, and our America.
That is impossible in a capitalistic society, I have what you need, then I will charge you more.
Be Best! Seriously though this is the best way forward.