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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, December 3rd, 2021. I'm Caleb Brown. The Good Life,

The American Dream. Is it still possible? And who still believes in it? Gonzalo Schwartz of the Archbridge Institute studies how Americans view the American dream

and how achievable it is.

We spoke last month.

Just so we get our terms straight here.

In your view, in the simplest explanation, you can give it what

is this idea that we call the American Dream.

The American Dream is the promise I think of a land where people seek to live better, richer, and fuller lives

regardless of what that means to them, but that they are, it's an aspirational, hopeful, optimistic

idea in which people try to pursue their dreams as much as they can.

It's not an assurance that everyone will achieve it.

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