The American Dream is connected to our frontier culture, so it's a few hundred years old. I think even a century ago, places like Europe has prosperity but stil

The American Dream is connected to our frontier culture, so it's a few hundred years old. I think even a century ago, places like Europe has prosperity but still very strong class systems (some might argue they still do.) The promise of America was freedom, that hard work would mean prosperity (not riches, but prosperity), and that your kids could do better than you did. We take all this for granted but I think in some ways we now struggle to still offer this; in particular, it's not clear that the new generation today will have to opportunities that the last one did.