Why do we work harder than Germans?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. The American Dream was a nice piece of propaganda. It sounds great on paper and in movies.

The reality is quite different.

You know what's funny? Americans (mostly right wing) will say, "Well, I can point out people that started out at the bottom, and through pure hard work became millionaires."

Well, I point out the following:

(1) You can find that even in India and Mexico. There are examples everywhere of people who went from having almost nothing to becoming millionaires. Those examples are the exception, not the rule, even in the U.S.
(2) People whom are said to have 'made it,' whether in India, Mexico, or here, made it because they had some spectacular circumstances, situations, breaks, etc. Again, it's the exception, never the rule.
(3) Americans are VERY FOND of using the highly unusual as an example of something that everyone CAN do, when that's a fallacy.

That's what the American Dream is about, and that's why it's called a dream. It's not reality.