The American Dream was once the reason why we prospered for so long. It gave individuals hope that they could find a job and the job they chose would benefit their community on a smaller scale than jobs today. It used to mean that everything was done for the greater good, and it was done daily. There was milk men that brought milk every morning or every other morning without a lid because families bought milk to drink milk not to store it in the fridge for weeks. The grocery stores were stocked weekly and people bought groceries to cook a meal with, again not to store foods in the pantry that were loaded with preservatives.
To bring this back to our reading about the credit era, this is all indicative of our the hard work our grandparents used to do to earn what they bought. They worked all day to earn a paycheck that would pay for their house, their family's food, their car, and maybe after a few years they would take a trip. But now it is buy as much food as your house can store to limit the trips to the grocery store, which has been quadrupled in size in order to cater to every potential customer, and with all the groceries our credit card could pay for... we end up going out to eat.
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