You’re hitting on materialistic tendencies. I’m with you here. Sometimes I think materialism is confused with the American Dream. It’s not about having more stuff. The Dream to me is being able to make a better life for yourself and your family. I’m doing better than my parents. They did better than theirs. People move here to start that process, to build the foundation. It may not happen overnight, it may not happen for a generation or two, but that to me is the Dream. the system is definitely flawed. I’m all for looking to possibly change the way things are done if it will improve the system overall, especially for the people at the bottom. Handouts don’t work, safety nets do IMHO. People will take risk with a net, but if it’s done for them, they probably won’t.