OWS

[kmusser]

Some follow-up links, as usual from andrewducker:
What the protesters are protesting - with charts - essentially the lack of jobs and low wages of the jobs that do exist. Doesn't really go too much into the how we got that way though, for that what's wrong with the economy and how to fix it. Also a very nice personal essay about class, sparked a lot of thoughts for me, if I find time I'll write some of my own experiences of class differences.

Comments

[radiant-one.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting the link to the essay on class. I've not gotten all the way through it, I had to stop and write something down.

[cosmolinguist]

I read the Tiger Beatdown essay (it's on my RSS reader) earlier today before I saw him link to it so I feel all cool now ;) I think it's an incredibly strong piece; there's lots of good stuff going on there lately and for anyone who doesn't read it otherwise I would recommend checking it out (it's recently reached its third "birthday" so there's a sort of "What Tiger Beatdown Is" entry around there which would be good for seeing if it's the kind of thing a person would be interested in).

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the essay... though-provoking and a little bit troubling in the right way...

[toothlesshag.livejournal.com]

I liked the last two links.

On my LJ I've written my own reflection of the crisis, but now that I read that, I wonder and worry that I did it because I was classist. Maybe I am. I think I am also just looking for power over the situation.

[kmusser]

Yeah, I sort of wanted to reply to your post, but couldn't figure out what to say. I think one of the points of that essay is that we are all products of the class that we came out of . . . and those classes are breaking down. There are many folks that have done everything "right", they worked their asses off, went deeply into debt, to get that engineering degree, and still can't find a job. It's taking a combination of education, hard work, privilege, and dumb luck - just to get by. It shouldn't be that hard, it wasn't for our parents generation, and this is still a rich country, there really is no reason for it to be other than the greed of the top 1%. I think trying to take back some control is really the motivation of the OWS protests.