The American Dream is Dead
Years of high unemployment rates let to underemployment for those who were working, and this led to more unemployment for those who were not working. Gas prices were also incredibly high, regardless of the fact that oil prices were dropping. This then lead to high food prices and higher health care costs.
You might be confused as to what this is about, this is about the unattainability of the American Dream. The American Dream relies upon a key concept that people can make enough money to get themselves out of whatever dire situation they are in and with enough hard work they are able to move up the socio-economic ladder.
Well think again buckaroo. Here's a little graph comparing minimum wage to the GDP.
What do you see? What I see is that our country is becoming more and more prosperous, which leads to increasing cost of living, but a minimum wage that isn't keeping up with this. We now live in a world where working minimum wage means that you are earning far less money than what is deemed to be not in poverty.
This shows that the group of people who need it the most, the group of people who don't have access to proper education, are the ones who are being most punished for it. Imagine the poor people in the country as the first little piggy, the piggy who could not afford to build a house out of bricks. This person has to live in conditions that are subpar, and the big bad wolf, the government, keeps coming back and kicking the poor people in the shin.
The government stands to the side, claiming to be doing good for the people, while in reality they just stand to the side and laugh at the poor people's conditions while they socialize amongst each other on the top's of New York penthouses. It's quite sickening that people still believe that it is feasible to climb out of poverty, yes I admit, it's possible, but with the current state of economic policy, it just is not feasible.
Ok boomer, you complain that our generation is lazy and is always poor, while here's news for you old man, you are the reason that this generation is like this. Because of your stupid economic policies we live in a country where minimum wage is not the minimum amount of money needed to survive decently. The soul of this country, the thing that made it uniquely American has been killed off and replaced with the greed of the capitalistic pigs.
The American Dream is dead, and there's nothing you or me can do as long ass the rich and the social elite have the government attached by strings.
You might be confused as to what this is about, this is about the unattainability of the American Dream. The American Dream relies upon a key concept that people can make enough money to get themselves out of whatever dire situation they are in and with enough hard work they are able to move up the socio-economic ladder.
Well think again buckaroo. Here's a little graph comparing minimum wage to the GDP.
What do you see? What I see is that our country is becoming more and more prosperous, which leads to increasing cost of living, but a minimum wage that isn't keeping up with this. We now live in a world where working minimum wage means that you are earning far less money than what is deemed to be not in poverty.
This shows that the group of people who need it the most, the group of people who don't have access to proper education, are the ones who are being most punished for it. Imagine the poor people in the country as the first little piggy, the piggy who could not afford to build a house out of bricks. This person has to live in conditions that are subpar, and the big bad wolf, the government, keeps coming back and kicking the poor people in the shin.
The government stands to the side, claiming to be doing good for the people, while in reality they just stand to the side and laugh at the poor people's conditions while they socialize amongst each other on the top's of New York penthouses. It's quite sickening that people still believe that it is feasible to climb out of poverty, yes I admit, it's possible, but with the current state of economic policy, it just is not feasible.
Ok boomer, you complain that our generation is lazy and is always poor, while here's news for you old man, you are the reason that this generation is like this. Because of your stupid economic policies we live in a country where minimum wage is not the minimum amount of money needed to survive decently. The soul of this country, the thing that made it uniquely American has been killed off and replaced with the greed of the capitalistic pigs.
The American Dream is dead, and there's nothing you or me can do as long ass the rich and the social elite have the government attached by strings.
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