Thread 515293923

Families who could easily live on one salary. Safe neighborhoods. If you worked hard, you could achieve anything. Rags to riches.

Was it indeed a dream?

>>515293923 (OP)
>Was it indeed a dream?
Yes. You have to sleep to believe it.

>>515293923 (OP)
New dream. New nightmare.
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>>515293923 (OP)
Once upon a time ago? yes, although it was short lived.
I think the inflection point happened around the late 60's because you had many movements happening all at once, and I'm not just talking race, but manufacturing, societal changes, etc. By the 70s there was a growing disparity between everything, houses, cars, you name it.
The new American Dream is to stay outta debt.

>>515293923 (OP)
Of course it was real. Even today, yes the income equality levels are absurd, I'll admit that. But if you go to Silicon Valley, you cannot shake a stick without hitting a fucking millionaire. Many of them self-made. That came there from around the country or perhaps around the world, and made something of themselves. Only with an idea and willingness to execute. There are loads of these people with what most would call, "fuck you money". No disrespect intended, but in comparison that is really not possible in the Netherlands and other European countries that favor a more low-risk, "tortoise and the hare" approach to work. Like the guy who made Thuisbezorg, a success story of a homegrown project that became massive, but these are very isolated events. I realize this is one man's opinion, that really means nothing. But i've been out there, deployed to far reaching corners of the globe. This idea of "upward integration" is inherently American and shapes everything. It is the progressively bigger carrot that keeps us marching forward. Even with all its faults, America is still the best goddamn country in the world.

>>515295087
>Many of them self-made
>They just borrowed a couple of billions of dollars from daddy
i stopped reading after that and you can fuck off

>>515293923 (OP)
Yes
A man could support a family with a wife and two kids minimum with only one income.
He could buy a new house on payments for less than ten thousand dollars.
He could buy a new car for less than five thousand dollars on payments.
He could afford to take his family on vacation every year and go to Disneyland or Washington DC or the Ocean.
Bacon was considered the cheapest meat money could buy and was pennies per pound.
Ground beef was considered the cheapest beef and many Americans refused to eat it.
You could buy a coke for a quarter.
You could pay your phone bill electric bill and your gas bill all together for less than ten dollars.
All of this was possible when minimum wage was $3.10 per hour.
Your world is so fucked up you have no idea how close to being over it is.

>>515293923 (OP)
yUP AND THEN THE NIGGER INVASION STARTED! THEN THE HYPER INFLATION STARTED! THEN THE BOOMERS WHO WERE GIVEN FUCKIN EVERYTHING HANDED TO THEM DECIDED THEIR CHILDREN DIDNT NEED ANY OF IT

>>515293923 (OP)
80% was day workers. no contract no future.