Is the American Dream Dead?

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you make it to the middle class. Then that's the golden level of life and you can, you know, retire at sixty five and you can send your kids to college and every that to me is a lot. The middle class is a product the mortgage system in America is the product of the banking system. So the idea ofkay you moving from and now we're seeing the reverse.

People are moving from the suburbs to the city. But the idea that you move from the city to a low ink, from a no income neighborhood to a suburb to admit mid to you know, doing okay neighborhood has some level of security. It's not true. You actually probably have even less security because at least when you're paying rent, you're just paying rent. Wor worse that happens is you

missed the rent and you get kicked out. The worst thing that happens when you the fault on your loan is that you could actually get sued and now you got four hundred thousand dollars that you got to pay and then it ruins your credit forever and then you So it's actually way worse to the fault on a mortgage than it is to just not pay your rent. You could just walk out on the rent payment. But the thing about it is this, most Americans are buying

homes that they can't afford. That's why you need to watch the show tomorrow. Most Americans are buying homes that they can't afford. So when you when you're putting something on heavily over a debt, so you're going debt tremendous amount of debt to make sure that you're living somewhere. But the average person doesn't have four thousand dollars in savings.

So what that tells me is that that's why we have to have compassion and for homeless people because we don't know how they got there, either from the mental aspect or the financial aspect. But the vast majority of people are not far away from being homeless, right, We're all just one decision and one paycheck away from being homeless.

So you got to think about this stuff right where it's like, Okay, if you have four thousand dollars saved, then that means that you're living pretty much paycheck to paycheck. And if something happens for a month, let alone two months, right, if you don't have family, you're gonna be out on the street. That's not a dream to me. That's more of a nightmare. So you got to you gotta leverage the next thirty years to live in a home that you can't afford, work every single day to make sure

that you just make sure you're maintaining that level. Right, then you're sending your kids to college. The college is thirty thousand, forty fifty thousand dollars a year. Man, the average person, the average person. I just said, that person got four thousand dollars in saving, So how they're gonna pay thirty thousand dollars a year. Well, what happens you student loans. So now you're in debt from your house.

The kids are in debt for their education. They're getting degrees most of the time, that's not even going to really advance them in life. So they're starting life out with one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the loan debt and they're still not even able to find a job. Right. And then when you look at it from a standpoint of wages have stayed the same for the last thirty years for the most part, but the.

their income they're supplementing putting it on debt. So you're living somewhere that you can't afford, You're sending your kids to school for them that they can't afford. You're putting yourself in debt on the on the home, you're putting yourself in debt for the school, and then you're putting yourself in even more debt to even just live day to day life. That to me is a triple recipe for disaster. We don't even talk about car payments and in other and other forms of debt. So that's not

a dream, that's a nightmare. That's what most people. But psychologically you can say, okay, well, I'm still doing better than I was or somebody that's in abject poverty because I'm not, you know, waiting on food lines and I'm not starving. I have meals coming in. I could go to Miami two times a year. But it's like that dream is to keep you something. It's like putting a carrot in front of the rabbit, but having them on

the treadmill. You could see it. Because if you're an abject poverty now you you well, you don't have no hope. That's when you revolt, right, But when you got to keep you some level of hope, and they got to keep you some level of your better than somebody else. So that's the trick even with like white supremacy, with poor white people that they feel like at the very least they're white. So they made them feel emboldened by

that because they might not have anything else. But they're like, Okay, I still feel good about myself because I'm white, living in the portance, living in the poorer states in America, having you know, health issues. Can't read all types of shit, So I just see that as a trap to the American dream. That's not real to me. That's more of a nightmare. But that's my humble opinion, How do you feel about.

is insane. And then if undergrad loans are higher than ever and now there's degradation in even going to college and having a pathway. Like most kids who go to school now they don't know what career path are going to take. At least when we went to college, or the thought was in elementary and high school, go to college, you'll get a job, damn mere, Guaranteed you won't have

any issues. I think the American dream may be dead for the middle class, but for those who put this financial level of economic terrorism together, I think the dream is live and well for them for sure. I don't think anything at this scale happens by accident. And I've always said it like the middle class has been eroded, and people try and push back on it, but when you look at the actual data, people are suffering at scale worldwide while the middle is being crunched. So yeah,

do I think the American dream is dead? For the citizens? Yes. For the institutions, I think they're happier than ever. Because now if I have a class of people that we're doing well, and I somewhat eradicate them through AI or scaling inflation corrections in the market market manipulation, I can control the population a lot better than a post and if everyone is doing well. So But you guys put it in the comments, what do you think is American

dream live and well? But the picka fins go to college guaranteed employment?

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