The #OWS movement isn’t anti Wall Street or anti corporation.
The Occupy movement isn’t anti Wall Street or anti corporation. That’s a misconception. Corporations aren’t the problem exactly. Corporations are organized to further their own interests. It’s more or less all they can do. Capitalism works, to be sure. And people get rich. It’s fine. But our government should be organized to take a longer and broader view and further the common interests of everyone. When only corporate interests drive the government – when our politicians don’t really work for us, but for big campaign donations – when the dwindling middle class and poor are stuck with Wall Street’s gambling debt – then our democracy is broken (and so is capitalism, incidentally). Hard to see how we wrestle it back exactly, but I’m glad for the growing recognition that we’ve got work to do.
