Occupy This

IS ONE PERCENT OF THE POPULATION STEALING FROM THE NINETY-NINE PERCENT OR  IS NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF THE POPULATION STEALING FROM THE ONE PERCENT?

The animosity of Occupy Wall Street was directed at the super rich, particularly the ones holding the largest amount of the world's assets. This corporatocracy represents crony capitalism at it's finest, as businesses seek assistance from governments in the form of handouts, subsidies, mandates, and regulations. This perverse relationship facilitates the manipulation of the global economy, skewing the actual demand and supply of informed consumers and producers.

Inflation, the increase in the money supply, punishes the savers in society more than anyone.  The greatest form of capital still remains the idea; more valuable than land, laborers, or machinery.  I do not entertain for a second that these so-called "super-rich" actually have the greatest amount of savings (luminous ideas).  Sure, they have a balance sheet loaded with luxurious amounts of assets, all of which could be liquidated in the forms of cash if necessary.  However, their lavish amount of spending proves they are not saving time, money, or energy.

Who is the ONE percent?  Is it the political class?  Is it the mega-rich CEO's, venture capitalists, or global bankers?  Or is it an unidentifiable select who continue to produce over and over with hardly any dollars, landholdings, or employees?  This theme was covered heavily in Atlas Shrugged as the world's largest producers were looted by the government and citizens until they went off the grid and decided to live in a "sustainable" community out of protest and self survival.  In the book these artists of industry held their ideas close as to protect the world; they went on strike.  This story is very similar to the American hippies back in the day who protested the war and the direction the country was going.  The "free-loaders" dropped out of the system in defiance, and were right to do so.

I find it hard to believe that a small group has figured out a way to steal from everyone in front of everyone without repercussions.  Could all that animosity that was directed in Occupy Wall Street actually be a self-reflection? What if the one percent was incorrectly identified? What if that incorrectly identified one percent was actually part of the ninety-nine percent? What if nearly everyone was stealing from the few people that were still keeping them alive?

It could be easily justified that some one could say, "I am not a thief.  I work hard for my money and have never stolen a thing." The counter point to that would be that a dollar is not a symbol of what you have, but what you owe.  Credit cards are immoral, and you don't own your house, the bank does. The national debt represents indentured servitude on a scale that could never be imagined.  Things this society values as a whole doesn't have any real value, just nominal value. But good luck trying to convince ninety-nine percent of the population that they are thieves. I am sure they are never going to BUY that.