pavansuresh
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I am Pavan the Skeptical Elf.
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Post by pavansuresh on Feb 8, 2016 16:42:40 GMT
The Great Recession of 2008 hit almost everyone really hard. No denying that. People suffered a lot from decreasing wages, job loss, the housing bubble and many more issues. As a result, the already-pessimistic view of the American Dream took a major hit. Can anyone say that when you lose your job and a lot of your money because of all of these combined issues, you won't become angry? Millions of jobs were lost during the Great Recession, and when all that frustration is let out... well, people get mad. It's not pretty. As a result, more and more people are denouncing the American Dream's viability; people just don't believe that it's attainable for most anymore - and this is quite true, when seeing the state of the nation's poor class. America's no longer a dream country; no longer does anyone wish for upward mobility as they did back in the era of Gatsby, but instead, many (including the approximately one million unemployed Americans who have not looked for work in the past month) have given up on the dream.
What do you think?
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Post by juliamann on Feb 8, 2016 22:10:47 GMT
Pavan, I like your thoughts on how the 2008 recessions affected the American Dream. I believe that people gave up on the American Dream because the ideals that existed for decades began to change. Wikipedia (great source, I know) defines the American Dream as, "the set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers". The older view of the American Dream describes a situation without too many barriers, and with events such as a major recession, this situation is not possible. This may be why it seems that the American Dream is not available to oppressed groups, such as people of color and women, because there are many difficult barriers they have to pass to achieve their goals. I believe that the Dream is not lost, but rather being redefined. There are many changing barriers that people are facing in current times, causing the American Dream to be rediscovered.
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Post by berniesanderscansuckmyfatcock on Feb 9, 2016 2:05:04 GMT
@allyouretardswhosupportsocialism, Socialism encourages people to be more lazy. It makes being poor more appealing so people will have less drive and less ambition to succeed. People know the government will catch them when they fall, so they don't bother trying. You can see in nearly if not all of the socialist countries in Europe, the unemployment rate is much higher. Capitalism and social darwinism is a must for all modern economies and people to succeed. It is not meant for everyone to be rich or everyone to succeed. This is impossible. You just have to do what YOU can to make sure YOU succeed.
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