Journal 67: The American Dream

The American Dream is what we would like to believe. However there's no such thing as the American Dream. There is a wildly held belief that if you're poor but you're hardworking enough, you can be rich like John Rockefeller. That might be true. Though anything is possible. You don't have to be in America to achieve that. You need luck, not some government provided opportunity. It is just an advertisement for people to go to the United States. Sure, there's stories of people going from extreme poverty to filthy rich. However, that is definitely not the norm, and that is definitely not how you should think. It happens everywhere, just not often. The reason why it's not true is because it's normal for rich people to get richer. Say the house appreciates every year. Everyone knows that there is going to be a boom in the value of houses, however, you are poor, you don't got no money to invest on houses while the rich people, who accidentally found out about the house value appreciation by random chance, decide to spend 1/50 of his asset in gaining two times the amount of money invested. This demonstrate no matter how smart you are or how hardworking you are, if you don't have the money to invest, you just can't prosper, only by chance.