Forum Post: A word about hypocrisy
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 30, 2011, 11:04 a.m. EST by maineangler
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Let me begin by saying I'm certainly impressed with the movement. Its legitimate. But one thing that really bothers me is the hypocrisy. How many of you participating in the various Occupy movements around the world carry a cell phone in your pocket? Who is the manufacturer of those phones? Who is your service provider? What about the shoes you are wearing? Or your clothes? How about the computer you are using to read this? All your words assailing "corporate greed" are completely meaningless if you turn around and contibute to these same corporations with your dollars!!! We often forget the power we yield as individuals in a free society. Everyone of us is a consumer with the freedom of choice - we can spend our dollars wherever we choose. IF YOU WANT CHANGE, START WITH YOURSELF!!! Stop buying corporate products! Until then, your protest is as empty as your pockets...
Radicals made this country. The comments here are the same used 200 years ago to discourage those who wanted the right to own, manufacture and sell for their own profit not that of the 1%. BE Radical. REGISTER AND VOTE the corporate theives out of office. STAND UNITED with one goal.
these OWS people are a fucking joke. they should be sending out resumes
They've got half a million dollars invested in Wall Street through a bank, when they're supposedly protesting Wall Street and banks. The hypocrisy of investing in Goldman Sachs while protesting Goldman Sachs is pretty obvious.
The infrastructure was subsidized by government and the workers built it. corporations expropriated it for their own profits. You don't need capitalism to build a nation you need capital. Capital derives from taxes. Those phones are the work of scientists in schools receiving tax money. The internet was subsidized by are government, hence by the people. To say market forces are the only drivers of tech. is simplistic at best. Those technological changes are a testament to the ingenuity of a species, not a corporation. Those technologies are needed to form a consensus; they are the tools of change.
Congrats, you've built a complete strawman.