Occupy Wall Street protests

[STRAT]

A debate on human nature?

Theres only greedy and super greedy.

Thing is. The super greedy are more motivated than the greedy.

I doubt the Chic in the Pic has any poor friends and I doubt she earned any of her comfort either.

Easy come. Easy go until life gets hard.

[winner69]

The greedy ones putting pressure on the Council to remove the riff raff

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/po...021-1mb07.html

[winner69]

Melbourne always touted themselves as the sporting capital of the world .... and did a great job showplacing itself as the bllod sports capital of the world yesterday

The Lord Mayor and that idiot Ballieu don't jsut get it .... maybe they should have had a chat with Richard Branson

Bransons on the case He's urging business leaders to listen to the message taht these protestors are giving (quote) In a sense [it's] slightly like the Wall St protesters are basically saying that we are lucky bastards to have been successful in our professions. An enormous responsibility comes with wealth - they have to get out and use that position to tackle a lot of the outstanding issues."

Full story here ..... good article
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=10760853

[winner69]

Another quote from Branson in the article linked above .... . "You take away the reason why people need to protest if companies are behaving in an ethical way,"

One of the best books I have read this year is Consumer Republic by Bruce Philp .... about using brands to get what we want / make corporations behave / and maybe even save the world

Worth a read and echos Bransons words

[Ayrton]

One thing that really confuses me about these protesters, is there hatred of banks. Where do they think money comes from?? If you have a credit-card, loan for car, house, business etc banks help to provide the funds.. Do they not realize that most businesses start with investors (through banks) or loans? Or that they happily use "big" corporates such as apple, facebook?, Google every day. No one forces anybody to put money into a bank. And its ridiculous to think banks shouldn't charge fees for their services. A lot of the current companies that consumers love today would not be around if there where no investment banks.

On the topic of "greed": Jay-z and the likes earn up to 80 million dollars a year, and owns a 2 million dollar car. This is ok? But if you go to uni (at your own expense most likely), get an MBA etc, work your way up (long hours I'm sure) to running a multinational company and get paid a few million its evil?

[Blendy]

http://gothamist.com/2011/11/01/step...tes_occupy.php

Totally hilarious Stephen Colbert video - he infiltrates the Occupy protest, then interviews a couple of protesters back in his penthouse apartment, trying to understand their cause and processes...

*warning* put down your coffee, or you'll laugh it out your nose!

[skid]

I think the real issue here, for the USA at least,is the tremendously unfair system that totally disregards blatant conflict of interest issues.
To allow a vice president to sit on the board of a multinational co.that makes weapons,when he is also making decisions on whether to go to war is criminal.
To allow major companies to influence politicians with huge campaign contributions so they can then have a say in political policies is criminal.
To outlaw conflict of interest in some areas,but to allow it in the political arena means the system is broken IMHO.
Fixing that would be a good start-but not easy..

[winner69]

Good advice from the man himself Eliot Spitzer

http://www.slate.com/articles/busine...ccessful_.html

[winner69]

These Occupy groups are only in their infancy ... it is the beginning of a revulution that will only grow in omentum over time

These 'greedy fianciers and bankers' are still raping the world .... it hasn't dawned on the people of Ireland, Greece, Italy and other countries that they have been taken to the cleaners by the these 'greedy bankers' .... the ones who lent to these countries knowing they couldn't afford it .... demand austerity measures to screw the populus so they can get back most of their money ... and eventually take over the prime assets of the country on the cheap

Jeez .. is that is what happening to NZ on the sly ... like an inside job .... like sell the assets before you get too indebted and we need to charge you more for lending to you (ie we'll be nice to you if you cooperate before we send in the enforcers) ... probably saying shouldn't have bankers running the country ..... like Greece has now.

we should support these Occupy groups

[winner69]

This poor women was slightly outnumbered and 'outgunned'

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,2221367.story