The American Dream Pros And Cons

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The American Dream The American Dream is the ideal that every U.S citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative (The Current). There was a time where the American dream was in reach of being attained by everybody in the country. Even foreigners had a chance in this great melting pot to go from rag to riches. The economy was wonderful and everything about America was absolutely amazing. The in today’s world is that with gather to little and we want to take too much. Around the world there are all different cultures with the same economic systems just simplified and sometimes different. In America today we had one economic system. Everyone was on the same level, but …show more content…

A piece of paper, for something that is key for survival seems like the best use of someone’s money right? As I stated earlier people keep taking out more than what they can put back in. Another thing is that in America we buy things we don’t need to chase the American dream, but I will save that for later in the paper. In different economies trade is simplified, people still work hard and understand their part in society that are not just an individual, they are part of a whole group. People trade labor for food, they take time that they could be doing something else and are using it in order to turn their labor into something else. This is basically the same system people have held to forever. It’s balanced and …show more content…

In the article it talks about how the underground is a very fast way to earn money in a world where it’s hard to grow up out of poverty. In the book it shows the market systems and how balanced regular trade. In the book it talks more about how there are parts in society that everyone has to fill, everyone has to work and everyone has to cooperate in order to survive. In the Underground Economy it seemed like the same way except a lot more dangerous but still pretty much on the same values and traditions. Another difference is that even though they are based on the same thing in the Underground economy there is always chance that this could be someone’s last purchase. In conclusion, knowledge is extremely important no matter where you go. The similarities between and Underground Economy and the traditional economy is that they are still based on the same trade standpoint. The only difference is that there is a chance for a person to lose their life in an Underground Economy. This all does fall under achieving the American dream. A dream that means a person must work hard and put everything they’ve got into advancing forward

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