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The belief in the American Dream, the promise that hard work leads to prosperity, is collapsing across political lines. Recent polling shows only 27% of Americans still believe it holds true, down from 50% in 2010. This isn't just perception: people born in 1970 had a 90% chance
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Workers create products and services → Workers are also the consumers who must buy those products → Consumer spending drives 70% of GDP → But workers' wages are suppressed to maximize returns to capital → So workers can't afford what they create → Which eventually undermines the whole system.