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Originally Posted by _slavo_
I kind of got the idea what that expression might mean.
it's the fact that unless you're a fucking lazy asshole, you have a high possibility to earn yourself a good career and a decent middle-class life. because there are possibilites to take advantage of. and everything seems so much easier there than anywhere else I've been to...like buying a car, getting a good education and yada yada. you just have to work hard, that's it.
but maybe i just didn't spend a long enough time in the US to get the right point.
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I think that is exactly right.
when I was young, married, earning $7 an hour with my then-wife earning $6 an hour, I woudl think myself poor, but I paid my bills, I lived in a home with carpet, and central air an heat, I had a stove and a fridge and relative seciruty. I had a car, a TV, a video game system, records, and maybe, just maybe, a bit of money to spend on ganja eevery few months. I would look around and marvel sometimes at the way I saw everything, because I have relatives in puerto rico who woudl consider my then-situation to be anIDEAL to strive for, but it was something I looked down upon, in my youth and stupidity. There are peopel in the world, MANY people in many many nations , who work their asses off all their lives and never even get close to the "comfort" and "stability" which I used to see as SHIT.