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Is the American Dream still alive?

The Bridge to China

CHAPTER

The Dissonance Between Dream and Fantasy

Jason: The American dream used to be that all the Americans would be fine. Now we get like the American fantasy, where super rich people have everything anyone could ever want their own islands there. People need escapism so they binge watch TV shows on the Internet and pretend in their mind that this is their life or that they're connected to these fantasies somehow. It's not tenable for 321 million American people obviously very misleading.

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