Woman With No Hope Comes Online To Vent About How The American Dream Is A Fraud

... that's what you get when EVERY mentioning of wealth distribution makes you a communist, thereby an enemy, the antichrist, evil, lazy, useless and generally "unamerican". When minimum wage was introduced in the 30's, the goal was to ensure that working a fulltime job would get you and your family fed, housed, clothed, healthed. Today, in many states that only have the federal minimum wage, it's a supporting income at best, that you can only consider enough if enough is already earned elsewhere, by your partner, roommate, child, parent. If we don't adress, and usccessfully so, the problems that a very unequal income distribution creates, one that is TOO unequal - nobody said wiping a floor shall earn the same as engineering or anything even close - the entire West will lose everything it is ahead in. Including democracy, freedoms of various kinds. Might still exist on paper, but you can't really use them anymore, even without going to hospital for something somebody else caused you.

So you found a redditor who does nothing but complain on reddit/buy toys. They admittedly suffer from mental illness, and used reddit to vent in a depressive episode. BP immediately jumped on it as another opportunity to post anti-American content.

I detect no lies. Congress legislates for their own stock portfolios, and they’re not about to ban themselves from insider trading and accepting money from foreign lobbyists. The Supreme Court lacks ethics. We undervalue teachers and educators. It’s harder for Americans to keep a home in the family for generations, owning it outright, let alone ever purchase one at all. Voting rights are being trampled. There’s no accountability when representatives gerrymander and suppress their way into power. Corporations have the freedoms to pay slave wages and mass pollute, yet they have none of the tax burden. Instead, they get subsidies, loan forgiveness, tax incentives and breaks. Americans are screwed.

I don´t know how some people come to the conclusion, that every argument that has to do with a mindset of social behaviour in a sense of a community of solidarity, has to be anti American and pro Russian/Communism. The world consists of a lot more than these two opposite sides of market economy. Vice versa one can ask why so many people living in this slightly "anti-social"/greedy system seem to be content with being treated in a (my personal opinion) unempathic way and give in to the wellfare dependent structures, rather than to strive for a more communal structured society. If you don´t need your workplace atmosphere (where most of us spend a lot more time awake than being in private) to be friendly. I always find my work performance to be more succesfull in a friendly environment, good for you! Maybe some are just better adjusted to the Treadmill. Hopefully they earn enough (and never loose it). The poor man is poor ´cause the rich man is rich (Bertold Brecht).

America is a lifetime of debt. It begins after high school. You have three choices - get a job, go to college, start a business. All three require you going into debt. Yes, getting a job puts you in debt. You need a car, insurance, license, parking, gas, tickets, and risk death every day on the road. The government does nothing for you. Whatever the government fails to provide becomes an opportunity for the rich to get richer by providing it for a lifetime of debt. No universal healthcare, scant safe reliable public transportation, decades to pay off student loans, no rent control or affordable homes, fired from your job for no reason needed, pathetic retirement benefits that get taxed because you still have to work, two weeks vacation, if any, each year, minimum wages below the poverty level, just to mention a few. Worst part is - the average American wants the government to continue to do nothing. They think anything the government provides is socialism - the ultimate evil.