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The American dream is about climbing from the bottom to the top, the idea that the 'real' American dream is working your ass off your entire life on the bottom rung so you can put your kid on the second rung and he can work his ass off his entire life to put his kid on the third rung and so on, always with the risk that one generation will slip and fall back down is total crap. It is antithetical to the idea of meritocracy.