Just Face It: Equality of Opportunity is a Cruel, Empty Joke in Our Low-Wage Economy | Demos
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As Jennifer Hochschild and others have written, the “#American_Dream” is actually a conservative ideological framework that falsely posits opportunity for all and wrongly blames individuals for economic failures that are due to structural causes. A big reason it’s always been so hard to build a fair society in the New World is that so many of us internalize this ideology, practically from birth.