Occupy Wall Street

“The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.” – Richard Carlson

Lately there has been much talk about the 99% vs the 1%.  People occupying wall street over the bailouts and excessive executive compensation... basically the poor hating the rich.

In a recent popular blog the writer asked readers the vague question, "How much money do you make and how much money do you have saved".  In the comments people there were two type of responses the haves "I make 70k a yr and have 450k in savings" and have-nots "I work from home and make 20k a year and have 2k in savings".  Then the have-nots got really jealous and stated to rip on the haves.  The post got to explicit and was taken of the site. 

It has been said before but part of the reason the haves are the 1% and in the position they are in is because they are not thinking like the 99% (I say that even though a lot of the 1% are born into wealth).  The 99% percent instead of protesting (camping out and smoking pot with the other jobless) how can you better harness this collaborative effort to something productive and more creative (other than copying your hippy parents' shenanigans).

Another observation is that whats the goal of the occupy wall street?  Productive companies spend massive resources and are very deliberate in defining strategy and vision in order to steer a movement towards a common goal.  It seems to me that there is no goal, end game, or progress towards a greater good with these protests.

Let us disband these misery camps and get out and get some... Ok there might not be any jobs out there so lets go and create them.