Sorry folks for now the American Dream is dead , except for the privileged. While all my great nieces and nephews are in college, I do wonder about their job opportunities upon graduation. A college cert is now a dime a dozen. Better to get in the trades.
Jean Paul GettyKBE (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist.
[2] He founded the
Getty Oil Company, and in 1957
Fortune magazine named him the
richest living American,
[3] while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion (approximately $8.8 billion in 2015).
[4] At his death, he was worth more than $2 billion (approximately $8.3 billion in 2015).
[5] A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the
gross national product.
[6]
J. Paul Getty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 96 he would of been the 67th richest, most of the big money was made of this growth period, and it will not return. They are looking to Africa now, to develop there and then I imagine when the US is a third world country , they will come back here.