The American Dream was a concept in the 1920’s that encouraged American citizens to obtain inventions, such as refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, and automobiles, that were meant to make life easier for them. These things were normally only available to the wealthy, but with credit advancements, even the average american could purchase these items. But as we study these events closer, we start to detect similarities between the past and our world today. In fact, in today’s society, we find that we have our own version of the American Dream when we examine aspects of our national credit spending and the amount of things that are considered the norm for each american to have. Over the course of time between past years and today, we find that debt
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In her article, “More Than 90 Percent of U.S. Households Have Three or More Devices Pinging the Internet,” Fried stated, ““90 percent of U.S. households have three or more Internet-connected devices…[and this] number [is] seen to be climbing in the coming years.” Today, Americans include luxuries such as internet access, electronics, and a house to call their own as vital to civilized life, and have paid substantially for these items in order to be accepted into modern society. Others may argue that in the 1920’s people had to strive for the American Dream while most Americans today expect everything to be handed to them, but they don’t take into account the changing times. Today, it is true that people don’t want to work for things, but human nature inclines us to always have the best, and credit cards as well as easier access to loans makes working for the American Dream unnecessary, however it still exists in a different context. Even though today’s times are different than the 1920’s, we can’t ignore the glaring facts that contribute to our modern day American Dream. Our statistics of debt and the amount of unnecessary things that are considered the norm, are proof that we have standards of living that Americans generally strive for, as was the case in the
In her article, “More Than 90 Percent of U.S. Households Have Three or More Devices Pinging the Internet,” Fried stated, ““90 percent of U.S. households have three or more Internet-connected devices…[and this] number [is] seen to be climbing in the coming years.” Today, Americans include luxuries such as internet access, electronics, and a house to call their own as vital to civilized life, and have paid substantially for these items in order to be accepted into modern society. Others may argue that in the 1920’s people had to strive for the American Dream while most Americans today expect everything to be handed to them, but they don’t take into account the changing times. Today, it is true that people don’t want to work for things, but human nature inclines us to always have the best, and credit cards as well as easier access to loans makes working for the American Dream unnecessary, however it still exists in a different context. Even though today’s times are different than the 1920’s, we can’t ignore the glaring facts that contribute to our modern day American Dream. Our statistics of debt and the amount of unnecessary things that are considered the norm, are proof that we have standards of living that Americans generally strive for, as was the case in the