Normally our society doesn’t describe their ambition of desiring more money, less stress and a bigger house to achieve the American Dream. It is often a cliché that most do not often admit as their primary goal in life in order to achieve the American Dream. However, it is fundamentally something they want to accomplish in life. Personally, I feel as though with the high debt our society carries as a whole, to be able to live on an upper class. I must carry high hopes of success to accomplish a high rate of money to not have debt at any point.
Everyone’s dream is to be wealthy and successful, but that shouldn’t persuade a person to be selfish towards others. You never know when you’re going to need someone, so it’s always good to be nice on your way up. When making a sticking to a goal, it’s good to be sure that goal will still be in good business years down the road. What’s in demand now might not be later. Walter Lee Younger experienced all of these details within the book.
Analytical Essay Overall wellbeing, an extravagant lifestyle, and wealth all come to mind when I ponder the good life but what does the good life actually cost? At first glance, this seems like a loaded question that requires multiple dissertations in order to answer. I even contemplated whether or not the good life had a cost at all. Breaking the good life into separate topics relieves much of the stress when it comes to giving an answer. In terms of consumerism, the good life is damaging to the environment, places too much emphasis on money, and it dwindles the importance of non-market values.
They formed the opinion that the superior races were hard working individuals that survive and flourish within the society. They were wealthy and had the ability to make intellectually superior decision and had the know-how to distribute wealth wisely. Yet on the opposite, it was believed that the inferior races that could not manage money well, were incapable of making sound business decisions and were in general lacking the social acceptance. They felt that by this reasoning, the inferior races would benefit from the superior race’s
Reducing taxes is the best way to facilitate the creation of actual wealth and have the economy reach its growth potential. Wanna-be central planners and welfare-state bureaucrats cannot compete with the progress and material improvement that a rapidly growing free-market economy offers. Bush’s tax cut may have flaws, but being too big or too radical is not one of them. This economy needs a tax cut, the bigger and sooner the better. The president’s plan is both politically possible and a practical starting point and I believe Americans would be well served by its enactment.
Since the true path to happiness, according to Epictetus, is the attainment of virtue, we can all become happier by improving ourselves, whether morally or intellectually. Furthermore, Epictetus' philosophy of happiness would lead us to live less stressful lives if we came to worry about only that which we can control. Still, while I admire Epictetus and his philosophy, I do not believe that most of us could be happy purely through the attainment of virtue. I believe that social support and some level of material possessions are necessary for happiness; we cannot forever strive only for virtue. I do, however, believe that Epictetus had a strong point when he asserted that we should only, rationally-speaking, worry about what we can change -- what good is there in worrying about things we cannot
American Dreams are slightly different for each individual. For one person, it may be making just enough money to support his family and live happily, but for another person, he may only be able to achieve happiness by making an extraordinary amount of money. The American Dream has become the pursuit of material prosperity instead of mere happiness. In James Truslow Adams’ book The Epic of America, he states that the American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it.
Jose’s driving force for staying in the United States was the ability to make profits and have a higher standard of living. His opportunities to be exploited were reasonable to him for he made such a high profit, but tried reconcile his illegal activities veiled behind a façade of “the American Dream.” Unfortunately, he was not living the true American Dream, for
If a wealthy person wants to give some of his wealth to other people, then that is his right. However, the act of a government taking his wealth to redistribute it to those that did not earn it is nothing more than the actions of looters. The current attitude of the American people is nothing more than the indolent masses leeching off the labor of the hero capitalists via confiscatory taxes and social transfer programs. These looters and moochers take the wealth that they never earned. Money and wealth are virtues, and the man who has them is virtuous.
When I read the Great Gatsby it was about striving for equality, but more of a drive to become as rich as possible. Although not always by the best of means, the idea that Americans were portrayed to care about nothing more than to reach the top is what kept the economy and the nation for that matter going. Most of the characters in the novel are full of nothing more than hope. Hope for money, hope for love, hope for a life better than what they had in the past. As Linn wrote, life is more complex than we think.