WileyQuixote42 t1_jefacyj wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:17 PM

Reply to comment by chewwydraper in Mental health over salary? Spanish workers shifting their priorities despite high unemployment by mancinedinburgh

Yep.

The Dream, American or otherwise, has been shown to be just that: a fantasy. Or more accurately, capitalist propaganda.

But now all I really want is my boring, simple little life. The job gets the minimum, both in effort and hours. Period.

Everything else gets my passion and what’s left of my time.

I-tell-you-hwat t1_jefdtia wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:40 PM

The “American” dream was real a long time ago. People could buy homes and afford food and amenities on a single parent salary.

Somewhere along the line it was taken away. They kept taking their raises and consolidated businesses down to only a handful of “big” companies while giving nothing in return. Record profits &unemployment numbers all at the same time.

Capitalism takes and takes and takes and offers nothing in return. They lobby OUR voted in politicians. They take over smaller companies. They pat themselves on the back for recod breaking profits while walking their offices “layoffs for you! Layoffs for you. You too!” They scream to come back into offices not to help YOU but to make themselves more important and to not break contracts for the office space. Especially when you could do 100% of you work remotely.

When you look at the way the world is moving, it almost has a quality of “purposeful corruption”.

“Its a Feature not a bug”

greensandgrains t1_jefi6vf wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:08 PM

The American dream wasn’t ever real for a lot of people. Racialized, a woman, disabled, or queer, for example.

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Fausterion18 t1_jefpp9c wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:57 PM

>The “American” dream was real a long time ago. People could buy homes and afford food and amenities on a single parent salary.

Lmao if by "homes" you mean a 700 sqft shack and "food" you mean spending more money on food than Americans do today(as percentage of income) despite having someone to do cooking full time, sure.