Forum Post: To all OWS members. We made the 1%

What you fail to realize is we made a lot of the 1%. A lot of jobs in the 1940's that are now wealthy jobs were almost poverty stricken. Actors and Actresses use to go to soup kitchens for meals. Pro Athletes lived in trailers. Our perception and popularity of everything increased there earnings expenantialy. It was actually Unions that got them liveable wages. It started as a great things but now because of their Unions these people make more than the movies, or the team itself does. But we lead them in to that corruption. In the 80's everybody had to have the most popular thing. This started advertisers on a marketing frenzy as your favorite person has this so you should too. Let us not forget kids killing kids over Air Nike hightops.

Yes the government and greedy profiteers have a lot of blame but you share that blame, or your parents do for supporting it.  It was the complacent attitudes of the 80's, 90's, and 2000's that led us to this.  The general view that if it doesn't affect me right at this moment I don't care because I have a job and can do pretty much what I want.  Now that the jobs have disappeared and the government has taken away your civil liberties you want to act.  Whey didn't you try to be proactive and bring things to light before.  Why didn't you form corporate spies to get information to shut down Enron's evil practices.  Why don't you take a look at your states expenditure reports in great detail and see exactly what is being spent and where. 

Protesting is great to bring attention to something but you are just repeating the past and just talking shit.  Until people actually get up off there buts and try to do something about it, nothing will happen.  They sit in there glass towers, filtering there money, bidding on there stocks right now laughing and you and I because they don't have to deal with us.  It is only by taking action and forcing them to deal with us that you can get results.