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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I agree with all of this. Is this the academic class trap that people have fallen into. Raising the minimum wage doesn't solve this issue or the chase for degrees. I find this a problem on the left, measuring success by the number of degrees. How many women, blacks, latinos etc are in STEM?
I will disagree with you on the bolded part, the American Dream. It still exists in cities and with immigrants. The amount of immigrants succeeding and sending money back to their home country is staggering.
As an example, overseas Vietnamese send 15 billion US per year back to Vietnam. And they are only the 8th highest. I believe India and Mexico are first and second.
https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/new...nam-rise.html/ |
It’s not just a left problem. How many people do you know that believe minimum wage jobs should be “stepping stones” for teens or shouldn’t be a career? What are their politics? How many do you know believe it’s ok for educated immigrants to be relegated to minimum wage jobs or hire undocumented immigrants for cheap labour (we know one!)? What are their politics? How many executives and hiring professionals require increasingly higher levels of education and work experience for entry level jobs? Do you think they’re all leftists?
The American Dream is not short for the ability of skilled foreign workers to come over and fill higher paying jobs in specific sectors. The American Dream is the idea that class doesn’t matter, that everyone should have equal opportunity for prosperity, upward social mobility, and success. It’s the idea that people are not limited by circumstance, but by ability. We know that isn’t true. You just admitted it wasn’t true when you questioned how many women, Black people, and Latinos were in STEM. Are you saying they’re simply less able? Upward social mobility is declining. The wealth gap is widening. You cannot change what the dream was supposed to be and say it has been fulfilled. It hasn’t. It’s a fantasy.