"the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing folks he didn't exist"
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was persuading people there was such a reality as the fulfilment of the American Dream.
I can dig the info out if I have to, but I recall that statistics indicate your rags-to-riches hopes are more likely to be realized in every other Western democracy, plus a handful of other countries.
Where this country scores is that the infinitesimally small proportion of people who do succeed in bucking the system may do so to dramatic effect. But that percentage is so very, very tiny, and its population is almost exclusively determined by chance.
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"the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing folks he didn't exist"
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was persuading people there was such a reality as the fulfilment of the American Dream.
I can dig the info out if I have to, but I recall that statistics indicate your rags-to-riches hopes are more likely to be realized in every other Western democracy, plus a handful of other countries.
Where this country scores is that the infinitesimally small proportion of people who do succeed in bucking the system may do so to dramatic effect. But that percentage is so very, very tiny, and its population is almost exclusively determined by chance.