I've always chuckled at how brainwashed Americans are when it comes to "I work 80 hours a week!" and being proud of it despite not being able to afford anything at all, but at least that's a fallacy I can understand because they're proud of being hard working, but the entire proud to say "I can't afford rent this month" is only understandable if the argument "I need a discount" actually works, and I've never seen it actually work, even in fiction.