A decade at McDonald’s
Despite the nay sayers the American dream is very much alive and well for those willing to actually work for it. Those who have not achieved the American Dream, or their own idea of it, are either lazy or don’t want it to exist.
Though arguably those who don’t want it to exist and have made a living of putting down the American Dream have actually achieved the very thing they hate. Maybe that’s why they’re always so cranky?
As for the incapable I have found many people who simply don’t have the capacity to go out and start a Fortune 100 company or some such common notion of success. But that doesn’t mean they’ve not achieved their American Dream.
One guy I know well may be considered lazy by many. But his idea of the American Dream is to work a year or so and stick away enough cash to take the next year off and go fishing. That is his American Dream.