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Prison labor to cover children's lunch debt
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The American dream narrative makes people falsely believe that they too can eventually become an aristocrat such that, against their own interests, they fail to stand in solidarity to hold them accountable.
All it takes is to look at the graphic of historic social mobility in the US to know that the American Dream is dead, buried, then was exhumed, incinerated and the billionaires pissed on its ashes.
Step one, don't let people think. What are the chances of me becoming dont-need-to-work-a-day-more-in-my-entire-life rich, given zero relatives at that level of wealth and any country of residence? Practically zero, unless I am something exceptional
I have no idea how it happens that so many fail to see even that