The Occupy movement kind of fizzled when the weather got cool, but I see big things for them when the weather warms up. And I smell big things too.
The biggest complaint of the original occupiers, Occupy Wall Street, was the greed of US corporations. They were the modern day robber barons, stealing from the poor, blah blah blah…Some called themselves socialists, and decried the evil capitalistic ways of America. Hey, that’s their right. First amendment guarantees it. But I feel it’s necessary to point out a few problems with the movement.
In almost every photograph, from almost every city, I say people either talking on cell phones or smoking cigarettes. Let’s examine that. In the case of the iPhone, you’re talking about a company that pays it’s CEO hundreds of millions of dollars a year, makes much of what they sell by employing underpaid factory workers in China, and have more cash on hand than 3/4 of the countries in the world, INCLUDING 25% more cash than the US.
Oh it wasn’t an Apple, it was a droid. You mean the operating system run by Google, who at this moment is trying to censor me on YouTube?
And cigarettes? You want an evil industry, I’m on board. So why are you posers supporting their product that will kill 10 million people worldwide in 2012?
So fellas, if you want to change the world, knock yourself out. But first? I’d start with the capitalist in the mirror.
