How lucky am I really?

To live the "American Dream" is to get married, having a good job, nice cars, a house, and kids. This idea is what many american's strive for, its the goals set up for them to meet. When dealing with people who are in poverty to reach any such dream seems impossible. To have the money to go to school, get a job (a good one) and be able to support kids. How did this become the "dream?" To realize that material things matter to this society. To have the higher status, is to look down on others. At the moment I realize how lucky I am, to be going to PLU, having my grandparents pay my rent, to make it easier on me, so I didn't have to work as much.