" The American dream, here it is: In America (and this is not just confined to America of course), if you work hard, play by the rules, you will succeed. Work hard, play by the rules, you will succeed. That’s part of the dream. Typically, it also includes a metric for what constitutes success. It almost invariably takes a commodified form, success. Since that’s the kind of reward a capitalist system can and must deliver. For example, a recurrent formulation is a home of one’s own. "

― Noam Chomsky , Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance