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Some Tips For The Simpletons of 'Occupy Wall Street'












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  • mstuartm mstuartm 3 years ago

    Would it have killed Forbes to copyedit this thing? I don’t disagree with some of the sentiments, but it’s hard to get past the presentation.

  • clementhyme clementhyme 3 years ago

    I strongly agree! The elitist snobbery is difficult to digest. He actually made a point or two worth considering, but who wants to validate anything coming from someone so superior and hateful towards average Americans?

  • roham roham 3 years ago

    I made an account on Forbes just to echo this statement. The point re: shareholder representation in the direction (or lack thereof) or at least compensation at public companies is an especially salient one. But wow, what a DB.

  • cajunfriar cajunfriar 3 years ago

    what is wrong with it – any you should check you own post for that mater.

  • cajunfriar cajunfriar 3 years ago

    What needs to be edited? looks good to me.

  • tptorpey tptorpey 3 years ago

    Simpltons? Lets review: the current world food production is (my numbers, current to 2004) approx. 3600 calories per person, per day. That means that with 1/3 waste every human would have a full belly and a healthy diet. Energy? 50 kw per person per day. More than the average American household. They only know that its wrong for 99% of the population to live without so that you can have lobster flown in from Japan. Unless you can explain why you are more important than my children?

  • funcuz funcuz 3 years ago

    Okay , so who’s going to pay for its distribution , storage , transportation , etc. ? That would be you … well , me as well since I’m sure you can’t handle the cost all by yourself . Of course , you won’t ask me , you’ll just get the government to do it on my behalf .

    What about the farmers ? If you’re giving their product away that necessarily creates a market surplus which drives the prices down . Ah , that’s not what you mean . What you mean is to suggest we buy the crops at premium , give it away , and then cross our fingers and hope that it gets to where it’s going without any interference from those that could use this ‘free’ food to their tactical advantage .

    If it was simply a matter of sending people flour in the mail it would have been done a long time ago . It’s not that simple . The only way you can get the ‘social justice’ you want is to invade , force our system on everybody not currently in full compliance with it , and then run their country for as long as it takes them to accept it as their own system .

    The author very much has a point . Firstly , if these fools/hippies actually knew what they were getting so riled up about , they’d be a lot more specific . Using nebulous ideals and emotional reasoning is precisely what keeps the have-not nations in perpetual poverty .

    Secondly , the hypocrisy of it all is astounding . In defining corporate greed , one should immediately recognize that we all actually rely on that greed to provide us with the high standard of living that we’ve come to take for granted . Corporate ‘greed’ is exactly where the government gets money to pay for hospitals , welfare programs , and every other social amenity that some people conveniently forget about as the mood strikes them . It’s what made the West so rich . It’s made dustbowls in the Middle-East wealthy beyond imagination . It’s turning China into the world’s largest economy . It took a devastated Japan and made it into the most advanced nation on Earth for a time . Since not everybody is on board with the idea though , we should just roll back the clock , try medieval economics again , and if that doesn’t work , we’ll give communism another try .

    Good plan (note the sarcasm)

  • xhereafternow xhereafternow 3 years ago


    Thank you, C. Montgomery Burns.

    Perhaps, there any many issues to be upset about that one cannot name every one of them in a pithy way to fit on one sign.

    It includes the anger of the 15 million unemployed who cannot find jobs to support themselves or their families.

    It includes the anger of working women who (although they make up the majority of the college-educated and even the work force) cannot get paid the same wage as men doing the same work.

    It includes watching a wealthy, connected foreign corporation trash four US states with oil and being protected by your own government.

    It includes watching wealthy corporations like GE, Bank of America, Citigroup, Exxon, Boeing, Amazon and many others make BILLIONS and yet pay no tax. Instead, the government decides to reduce the deficit (largely created by wars for oil and resources) by cutting programs that the unemployed and elderly need to survive.

    It includes the Citizen’s United Supreme Court which allows legal bribery of the government by said corporations.

    It includes the manner in with large banks have stolen homes away from the middle class through the foreclosure debacle.

    It includes the recent and massive transfer to wealth from the middle class to the rich.

    And that’s just a start…

  • adrian adrian 3 years ago

    I forgot that corporate greed invented everything we love. Food? Nobody had ever eaten food since before corporations. Clothing? Corporations perfected the creation of clothing by small children in Nicaragua. I thank them, and I know the children of Nicaragua thank them too, for the opportunity, as do the jobless Americans who feel solidarity with Nicaraguan children.

    Greed is good! Thanks, Gordon Gekko wannabe. Greed is good, and any ethical complaints we have about it are wrong because the ends justify the means.

  • fred01 fred01 3 years ago

    Let’s stick to opinion and insults, no facts please. Arguing via the laws of thermodynamics will get you nowhere.


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