The 'American Dream' is not 'Mail room to CEO' though FYI this is still possible. The 'American Dream' is a stable job, a modest home with 'plumbing' and 'elec

The 'American Dream' is not 'Mail room to CEO' though FYI this is still possible. The 'American Dream' is a stable job, a modest home with 'plumbing' and 'electricity' and maybe one car, plastic tupperware, maybe a dishwasher, and a safe community with basic constitutional protections and a justice and democratic system with integrity and legitimacy, decent public schools and some access to higher education. All of that is revolutionary in the grand context of history. The 1950's 'America Middle Class' is the dream, as it is for many migrants to the US for whom those things are like heaven. The '$100K job, BMW and Corner Office' - that's something else, more like icing on the cake. People forget how hard it was for the world to create the basic '1950s middle class standard of living' and frankly how delicate the system we live in is. Within a generation we've come to accept that as more of a 'basic' condition of life, rather than something aspriational, which is a bit tragic. Most immigrants 'get it' though.