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Originally Posted by Kefir King
And we could get all the poor people out of Queens, Bronx, and Brooklyn to make way for the millions upon millions of gentrifiers with their $200,000 jobs right out of college, sipping their Starbucks glued to their Apple laptops.
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KK, while I respect your advice here on the forum, I must ask: Why dis on them? Last I check, $200K is hardly part of the 1%. Also, don't these college kids have student loans to repay which puts them squarely in the 99%? Besides, I thought jobs are hard to come by right out of college, no?
Back to the question at hand:
I really hope that OWS would have died from the winter. But I doubt it.
I used to think protests against child labor are dumb. I used to think protests against sweat shops are dumb. Because I know that these conditions existed because there was no alternatives. It's either that or face starvation or death. It is incredibly sad. But I also understand that without these alternatives that seem so unsavory to us, those people and their family and kids won't have a chance for a better future.
One may then say the system is broken. Yes. Disparity in the world is abhorrent.
But let's not look at that truth now. Let's just worry about I can't afford Starbucks and MacBook. And the media is under-reporting on the fact that many people now cannot afford Starbucks and MacBook.
I kindly ask Occupy to rebrand themselves to represent who they actually represent. Do I agree with some of the ideas from Occupy? Yes. But that doesn't grant them the rights to say they represent me. No. I kindly request that they don't misrepresent themselves as a representative of me, as part of the 99%.
You may say all the grievances are interlinked. Therefore, the Occupy movement is holistic. All the facts are connected. If I agree with some of the ideas, then I fundamentally and perhaps unknowingly also agree to the rest of the ideas. If that's the case, let's be truly holistic about it. And let this one other fact be known: There is a sizable population this is just plain lazy.
Greed and pride are sinful. But so are sloth and envy.