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Contentedness

Exodus 20:17

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According to a recent Investopedia analysis this year, the American Dream costs around $3.4 million to achieve over a lifetime. This includes the cost of: Getting married, Saving for retirement, Paying for college, and Family health care costs.

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The analysis notes that the American Dream costs more than most people will earn over their lifetime, with the median lifetime earnings for the typical U.S. worker being $1.7 million.

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Basically the American dream lies nearly twice the distance from where the median lifetime earnings of a typical American worker.

 

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Exodus 20:17

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But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.

1 Timothy 6:6-8

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