{"id":30,"date":"2011-10-02T22:27:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/?p=30"},"modified":"2011-11-22T13:59:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T20:59:03","slug":"30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/2011\/10\/02\/30\/","title":{"rendered":"Misguided Revolutionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAn estimated 2,000 people have gathered in Lower Manhattan<\/a>, New York, for the largest protest yet under the banner Occupy Wall Street.\u201d-<\/strong><\/em>BBC<\/p>\n

This headline caught my eye as I surfed the web without a particular thought in mind; no more than two paragraphs into the article, I found myself seething with frustration.<\/p>\n

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Occupy Wall Street protester- Courtesy of Europe News Blog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Demonstrators protested against \u201ccorporate greed, politics and inequality\u201d by camping out in the financial district of New York City, most commonly known as Wall Street.<\/p>\n

What gave these protesters the inclination to protest against corporate greed and inequality? These are citizens of a nation that has rigorously enforced commercial laws and a judicial system with unparalleled accessibility.\u00a0As for the question of inequality<\/a>; the protesters\u2019 argument is that the wealthiest 25% of Americans posses 87% of American wealth, with the bottom 40% owning about 1%. However, the reality is that the 1% of wealth owned by the bottom 40% of Americans is still a princely sum when compared to most nations of Asia and Africa<\/a>. Perhaps these protestors should keep this humbling fact <\/a>in mind while attempting to provide their nations\u2019 economy with a solution\u00a0by shutting down its\u2019 financial hub.<\/p>\n

In the end my thoughts were best summarized by the words of Anthony D\u2019Angelo<\/a>, “Realize t<\/strong><\/em>hat if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the <\/strong><\/em>time to do something about it.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-15143509<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAn estimated 2,000 people have gathered in Lower Manhattan, New York, for the largest protest yet under the banner Occupy Wall Street.\u201d-BBC This headline caught my eye as I surfed the web without a particular thought in mind; no more than two paragraphs into the article, I found myself seething with frustration. Demonstrators protested against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paulyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}