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Is Denmark the New American Dream?
For a lot of people, the price of living in the U.S. is no longer worth what we get in return.
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In 1872, John Gast captured the American dream in his painting “American Progress,” in which the U.S. is famously depicted as a woman holding a book, bringing light from east to west, leaving a strand of telegraph wire in her wake:
If a great painter tried to depict America today, things might look a bit different. Maybe Elon Musk lording over a land of Uber Eats drivers enduring structurally deficient bridges, storms of medical bills and crowds of pedestrians endlessly scrolling on their iPhones? Yes. And why is there such bad cell reception in this painting?