There is still the American Dream, but it has nothing to do with work or getting an education. Now it is more like making a million in cryptocurrency, flip houses, be a digital nomad, and make as much as you can with doing as little as possible. The "working class hero" is dead. Young people today see how the older generation was lied to, while the Elon Musks, Donald Trumps, and Mark Zuckerbergs made billions.