American Dream Obstacles

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The American Dream as we know it, has many, many obstacles preventing it from being realistically met in today’s society. The ideal life - having your own house, land, etc, is hard for people to meet. There are a variety of problems that prevent this from being the case, too many to list within a single paper. These reasons range from individual ones, to ones with our society with a whole. Three of the main reasons why the american dream is hard to meet in modern society are the lack of job opportunities, the continually increasing cost to educate oneself, and a general lack of work effort in some people. Our modern society leads itself to jobs being fewer and even more so far-between. With the invention of automation, in factories, “88% of …show more content…
Interestingly, the opposite can be said for this one, as “Technological advances that make life faster, more fun, more entertaining, and easier to navigate are also consuming our time and energy while eliminating avenues for learning vital concepts about work.“ (Fripp) While these advancements may not directly affect those in lower income areas, outside of those, it shows that the worth ethic needed to make the American Dream into a reality is getting harder and harder as we go on. When describing the current generation entering the workforce, it can be said that “They’ve heard stories telling how lottery winners, day traders, bloggers, dot-commers, and Internet marketers have managed to beat the system and derive a huge bounty with little or no effort.” (Fripp) Our society is turning more and more to trying to put in as little effort as possible to earn their pay, which doesn’t exactly line up with meeting the American Dream. In a whole, the American Dream is getting harder and harder for citizens to meet. This is a result of both individual issues, and issues caused by our society and economy as a whole. From the declining availability of jobs, to our ever increasing cost of education, and our slowly declining work ethic, the dream only gets more difficult to meet. These are only a few of the issues that face our society