Define what is: "The American Dream"

[statman]

What's in your bad storage?

Troll meat...

[CardiacCoug]

If the definition of the American Dream is being better off than the previous generation, the AD has been dead for a generation or so. Ultimately, we're not going to be nearly as well off as our parents - our generation had a nice first half of our lives, but the last half is gonna pretty much suck. And our kids' generation? Fuhgeddaboudit...

A hard rain 's gonna fall...

For more info: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/07/1...-implications/

Oh brother.

There are innumerable ways that people today have things so much better than the generation before us and this progress is going to continue. A few things that come to mind:

Anybody with a smartphone has an information and entertainment resource better than anything that was available to the President of the United States just 20 years ago.

Medical care is so much better -- 30 years ago every cardiologist took care of hundreds of patients with disabling chronic angina and these days such a thing is very, very rare because the coronary arteries can just be stented open and there are great medications. Similar progress has been made obviously in a lot of other areas in medicine.

Moving on to more trivial things, even a starter car like an 8-year old used car is so incredibly better than even new cars in the 80s. The new cars I remember my parents getting as a kid were terrible.

Then obviously the entertainment options today as far as music, movies and video games are so incredibly better than they were in the 80s.

I agree that we need to get our debt under control as a nation and cut entitlements, but hell I would have to make 10 times as much money as I do now to agree to go back to a 1980s USA. There was a poll recently given to college students asking how many would forgo all internet access for a year for a million dollars and very few of them would do it.

[New Mexican Disaster]

The American dream is two bathrooms or more.

[YOhio]

Great, great article on the yogurt brand Chobani. From nothing to $1B+ in five years.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/06/12/the-turkish-shepherd-behind-chobani.html

[Uncle Ted]

Great, great article on the yogurt brand Chobani. From nothing to $1B+ in five years.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...d-chobani.html

LOL. He is so rich he now feeds his yogurt to his dogs.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Great, great article on the yogurt brand Chobani. From nothing to $1B+ in five years.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...d-chobani.html

That is cool. We love Chobani yogurt.