Pros And Cons Of Achieving The American Dream

“The American Dream” was thought of as having financial security, a family, and to have a home. Although most people believe that “The American Dream” is attainable for all, but some people have to work harder than others. Which I believe is true because in this day and age some people can be born into a family that will make it easier for a them to achieve the dream. and others can be born with nothing, or just enough to get by. And they both will be looked at as if they had the same odds to attain the ultimate goal of achieving the american dream.

The American Dream originated in the late 1800’s, early 1900’s with mostly poor immigrants searching for opportunity; that their country did not offer. This time is now known as “The Gilded age”. A time when immigrants from all over the world came to
It was hard for people to find jobs. Also if they could find a job, it was even harder to find a job that payed good enough to provide for themselves and their families. For the majority of Americans, the 2000's was a “lost decade,” with wages flat lining or declining. Middle-class jobs disappearing, due to the new industrial factory jobs being so advanced. The factory jobs that were once all man work are now done by machines or computers. It makes it hard for people to find jobs now because if the ceo could just buy a machine and that will make what it needs, they won't need to keep paying people to do something a machine can do. "I can see why technology is taking over," says Liscano, His department employed 50 full-time meter readers just six years ago. Now, it has six.“ this is a electrical and gas company that is using smartphones to read people's house meters instead of going to the houses and checking they just get an alert on a phone. This took 44 jobs away from people that were making $67,000 a year now they don’t have a