Why You'll Never Achieve The American Dream

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"Lobbying: what every other country calls corruption and bribery" Yep

“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.” - Huey P. Newton

More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.

Another reason you don’t see many mom and pop stores anymore. The big corporations bought them all out. And they’ve made it almost impossible to be able to open up any anymore.

because you have to be asleep to believe in it

As the boardgame Monopoly tried to teach us: the board doesn't get any bigger, and once one player owns all the properties... the game is over and all but one player loses.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Government should be afraid of the people...

It’s called a dream because when you wake up you understand it’s not real

The American Dream = to possess things we don't want, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't even like.

The system isnt broken. Its working exactly as designed.

I beg to differ with one small point. You can also obtain a secondary education by agreeing to risk life, limb, eyesight, and sanity fighting in the ruling elite's imperialist wars.

It’s to late, most people don’t change until they hit rock bottom, which is a common mistake of all humanity.

In the American ideal of having no kings over us, we eventually just formed a new royal class of oligarchs; we're now all serfs in a technofeudalist world where everything is owned by (land)lords and merchant kings.

Reform sounds so much easier than revolution, but every time reform was implemented the counterreform pushes back stronger

"It's a big club, and you ain’t in it." ~George Carlin But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. ~George Carlin 2005

"A generation lost in space, with no time left to start again"

my new dream is not dieing of microplastic buildup before I'm 45.

I'm reminded of a paired saying that seems pretty accurate to these situations: "The system is broken and needs fixing." "No, the system is working as intended and must be destroyed."

i'm planning to invest $150,000 of my savings into the stock market to ensure safety even during a recession. What is the best investment strategy to follow?