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Originally Posted by Slava
I'll just start with the basic question I have. Where do you draw the line at this 1% /99%. Are we talking Calgary? Canada? North America? Globally? It just seems so ambiguous.
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I missed this part. I think the 99%/1% thing is kind of an arbitrary figure actually. It is my understanding that there are a very small number of people controlling the vast majority of wealth and resources.
As to whether they are 1,2,3 or whatever% they do say that 73.45 of all statistics are made up on the spot! I actually don't care what the figure is. For me, its human rights and the many ways in which they are violated when money matters more than humans do.
And there is no reason why there shouldn't be a general outcry against it. I care about pollution, government misspending and corporate crime but these are all just symptoms of the same core problem. When we begin treating individual symptoms it gets easier for that disease to spread wherever we aren't looking, which is why occupy has been very hesitant to draw up a list of demands. It's like playing whack-a-mole. You slam your big foam mallet thingy down as the mole disappears and the next one pops right up.
That's a bad analogy... but kind of apt actually. I've gotta use that somewhere.