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Originally Posted by _slavo_
I kind of got the idea what that expression might mean.
it's the fact that unless you're a fucking lazy asshole, you have a high possibility to earn yourself a good career and a decent middle-class life. because there are possibilites to take advantage of. and everything seems so much easier there than anywhere else I've been to...like buying a car, getting a good education and yada yada. you just have to work hard, that's it.
but maybe i just didn't spend a long enough time in the US to get the right point.
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That is exactly the point.
It's just that there are a ton of people who cannot make it work no matter how hard they try. Achieving the American dream does often require luck, or having come from a "well-equipped" family (whatever that might mean, depending on what you're looking at.)