Why Don’t Americans Want a Better Life?

You think you have it hard? I had to use a paper map, the Dewey Decimal system, and a discman.

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Obsessed with outdoing each other in every aspect of life, Americans proudly boast how hard they had it and trump each other’s hardship stories as if it’s fortunate to be misfortunate. Hardship bragging tales are often as trivial as standing in line for five hours to vote, to working three jobs to afford a college tuition, and the Americans revelling and idolizing adversity, haven’t a clue of what it is to really struggle. The obstacles the middle-income earners endured twenty years ago, aren’t comparable to the colossal challenges the majority of Americans encounter today, and the Americans patting themselves on the back for tolerating the government’s failure to provide adequate amenities like voting centers and support for the economy (aka the people), is like celebrating being kicked in the face.

Many Americans have accepted an inept government, and they want every single generation to shut-up and deal with it too. Historically, the objective was to progress as a civilization, but in the era of me, myself, and I, we don’t want anyone to have anything better or easier than we did. These overly coddled cry-babies just don’t want to work, and they expect more out of life; can’t they see how…