Unless you’ve been living in a bubble for the last week or 2 you’ll probably know about the occupation of the land outside the London Stock Exchange/St. Pauls Cathedral. Now I’m not even going to try and defend how some of the city suits have run the situation as you can’t deny they’ve fucked up somewhere and boy have they fucked up! The real question is what do the occupiers think they will achieve by simply sitting on a bit of land for a while?
They have a 9 point demands list but none of them have proposed a genuinely workable solution for these problems. Let’s face it, most of the protesters there don’t have a clue about how economics really works. There’s not some magic wand someone can wave to fix it all. Most of the solutions they’re proposing are leftist ideals which don’t work in the real world. Communism only works on a very small scale as there will always be one person who ruins it and skims off the profits. The facts of life are that there will always be some people richer than others.
Another small point to raise is that if the bankers are the tossers that the protesters are making them out to be do they really think they’re going to give even the slightest fuck? All the protesters are doing is causing a mild annoyance by getting in their way slightly. As far as the bankers are concerned all they’re doing is having a bit of a sleepover.
So what should they be doing instead? Well for starters if some of these kids protesting put half as much effort into their education then maybe they’d be closer to being part of the 1% and maybe they’d have some kind of influence on these matters. My family is nowhere near what you’d call rich but I’ve managed to get myself a fantastic education. Once I’ve finished my masters I can choose to move onto a PhD or get a real job. There’s every chance I could end up living a very comfortable life. For those of you complaining about how the cost of university is extortionate may I remind you that even at £3k a year we’ve had it so easy. In the USA it’s fully down to the individual to fund their own degree and the same goes for many countries around the world. Once you complete your degree you will be in a position to get a job that pays enough to pay back your student loan. And if your degree wasn’t good enough to get you such a job then why on earth did you do it in the first place. Honestly some of these so called “degrees” aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.
The second thing that seriously grinds my gears is that many of the protestors are from a middle class background. How did they get to live such a comfortable background? Well I’d imagine it’s something to do with their parents being the banker types. So why not complain to mummy or daddy about how they’re being so horrible to the poor third world children instead of causing a nuisance to the general public and costing St. Pauls Cathedral £20k a day? Now that’s not to say that all the protestors are like this. In fact most have good intentions if not a real grip on the realities of life. Conclusion: sometimes it’s just better to get on with your life and make sure your life is worth living. Do what you can to help others but don’t complain too much because wankers will always be wankers.
