The dream, for the working classes, but, working is an essential criteria to achieve it
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Yep - it was a lie - people have been working all their lives, some with two or three jobs yet still not managing to pay their bills let alone ‘live the dream’.
I’m glad people are waking up. Revolution is definitely in the air! 
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Things get complicated, if you let it Azz, there is a framework, if you use it to better yourself from your beginnings, that is success surely.
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That means tolerating the mega rich.
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The ‘framework’ is a trap - the system is set up against everyday people, every now and again they let someone through to make it look like they could have the dream too, but in reality it will not happen for the overwhelming majority. It’s a vile disgusting system created by greedy billionaires. Time we got rid of them and their chains and hold over the people 
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Absolutely not Spitty!! There are no ethical billionaires 
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Its your own ethics that matter, its all you got
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I agree. Along the path to billionairism 
they would have thrown a multitude of people under the bus to “get their way”
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Its been a decade or so but, here we go again “Who are They” 
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The dash blighters who control the masses is who “They” are.
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I think that is a too simple analogy 
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My next door neighbor may be a “They”
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No doubt about it, they are definitely “Theys”
you can’t have your cake and eat it too
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I think I have left my run up this path a bit late
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They…All meet up and discuss how the world will be run for the next year Spitty.
It’s done by social engineering and keeping everyone in debt (deliberately keeping prices high with things like net zero and taxes)
We are all controlled by a global government.
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Foxy, I keep myself in debt, what’s that all about?
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Do humanity a favour? 
Feel free to tell them what I think of them 
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Surprisingly today something about Chinese products came up in conversation.
A friend, who’s son until recently was teaching at a Chinese University and who is a published author on things Chinese, told me that the goods he brought back to Australia were far superior to the same Chinese goods on sale here.
In fact quite the opposite to us who send the best agricultural goods overseas and keep the second best for local consumption.
Late edit:
Just to prove I really do know an author (or at least his mother)
About the Author
Peter Charles Gibson is a research fellow in the School of History at Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China. He has published on Chinese Australian business and labour in the journals ‘Australian Economic History Review’, ‘Labour History’ and ‘Twentieth-Century China’. His PhD thesis at the University of Wollongong, on which the book is based, won the 2021 S. J. Butlin Prize for the best MA or PhD thesis in Australian and New Zealand economic history, awarded triennially.
My brush with fame 
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Perhaps they are factoring export costs haulage & tariffs into the production planning and adjusting inputs accordingly to ensure a low price.
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