Thread: Occupy Wall Street around the world.... Your thoughts and feelings about it!

Originally Posted by Eric C.

Again you mixed up everything. First, banks pay me percent for storing my money. Then, they don't force me into loaning money, if I ever decide to do so, that will be completely my choice. Can't see a single reason why the banks should be "stopped". Then, there you go on "the evil corporations" again. Leave them alone, please.

You're right, of course. Nobody's forcing people to borrow money from banks. In theory. But there is still something that needs correcting. Those people are consumers. They've been born by consumers, they were brought up to consume, every TV-ad, every billboard has been telling them to consume since the day they were born. They borrow money to consume and then work to pay off their debts. Well, everything IS fair and right... technically.
They're wrong to protest, of course, but the system that creates brainless consumers should also be corrected somehow.
These people can't express their thoughts, but they do feel deceived. They've been told to consume and so they did. Now they cannot and therefore - protest.

Originally Posted by Ramil

These people can't express their thoughts, but they do feel deceived. They've been told to consume and so they did. Now they cannot and therefore - protest.

+1
All they want is to be able to consume more than they do now because they compare themselves with the others who consume a WAY MORE. They don't dare to compare (hm.. a new trademark? ) their financial situation with an average worker in China. But why not? Indeed, that very worker in China is working!! There's a JOB (!) CREATED (!) for that worker in China! And why that job pays only $12 a month? Well, it's because the evil banks cooperated with the evil corporations through the evil governments and created the evil situation in the world markets that blah-blah-blah (you know the story).