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Nicole Spector

How Disney Shaped the Middle-Class American Dream — And Why It’s Time To Let It Go

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In the commercial and modern capitalist sense, no company has succeeded in monetizing the luxury aspects of the American dream as efficiently as Disney. It may not be as mammoth or wealthy a corporation as Walmart or Amazon, but those two don’t breed the dreams of small children who go to bed thinking they’re the happiest places on Earth. Disney does — and worming into the middle-class psyche like that is about as powerful as power gets.

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