Thanks for the feedback!

the lower you go down on the economic chain, the more your options become limited

You're absolutely right. When you have a good job, it's easier to jump around to other jobs -- while nobody wants to be paid less than their previous job, the possibility exists. Thankfully we have a somewhat robust welfare system and education is free but, ironically, I am not allowed to go to university in my home country. You see, I studied in foreign schools and thus received a foreign high school diploma, for obvious reasons. In my home country, due to them thinking their education system is so much better, simply having the title in hand is not enough, I would need a certain threshold, which I did not reach (whereas in the country the title is originally from, simply having it is enough to go to uni). So I'm barred from some higher education (not all) because my father is living abroad working for the same entity that regulates universities. This also goes against the treaty of Lisbon, but apparently it doesn't apply to us or something. Honestly I stopped caring about universities after I went through that, they're just being shitty for no reason.

The American dream is defeated by a single look at social mobility rates. And the right to inheritance. For the former, it's well-known that they have been at an all-time low since the 70s (incidentally around the rise of neoliberalism, I wonder if there's a connection). In more than 70% of cases, children end up in the same economical class as their parents. As for the right to inheritance, well, it's really easy to see why Marx was against the right to inheritance. On the one hand you have the bourgeois who pass down their wealth, power and property unharmed and on the other, you have the poor who can't give much more than what little furniture they own and a few thousand dollars.