Monday, April 9, 2012
This is kind of an old subject but I was thinking about it today so I figured I'd write a post about it. So know that the whole Occupy Wall Street craze has died down I was considering about some of the aspects of that movement that bother me. I have no problem with the act of protesting, that is why America is great, you can protest whatever you want to your heart's content. However I do have a problem with some of the protesters views on economic equality and the whole "99%" thing. Maybe instead of protesting that you aren't as wealthy as these Wall Street bankers, and brokers, you should go out and try to get a job or an education that will earn you money. It isn't like all these wealthy Wall Street guys were just handed their jobs and handed loads of money because they were born to rich families. My cousin started to work on Wall Street a few years ago and it isn't easy to become a wealthy broker. He went to a good college, got good grades, and went to a great business school. He got hired by a trading firm and now he spends close to 14 hours a day at his office, and often has to spend the night there to get all his work done. Sure he makes a good salary but he works his ass off for it. Another thing that irks me about some of these protesters is the people that complaining and whine about being a college graduate and not being able to find a job because of the greedy corporate companies and the terrible economy, but then you ask them what their major was and they say something like Art History. Now there is nothing wrong with being an art history major, if you passion is art history or theology, then go ahead and major in that, that's fine. But don't complain when you can't get a job because you majored in something that has a minuscule number of career options that provide almost no service and serve very little purpose in the larger scale of things. I bet if you surveyed the Occupy protesters about their college majors you would find very few, if any, engineering, or chemistry, or business majors. So even though I totally agree with the right to protest whatever, whenever, I think that most of the people associated with Occupy Wall Street need to stop wasting their time complaining and blaming everyone else for their problems and start taking matters into their own hands.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I completely agree with you about how people should not complain when they can't get jobs when they pick the most obscure majors. If they were really thinking about the future when they picked what they wanted to do, they should have looked into what the job outlook would be. I'm all for doing something that you love, but there is a price to pay for that if you pick something like art history haha. And I also agree that people should have the right to protest but for this Occupy Wall Street thing, I think their time would be better spent trying to get a job even if it isn't the ideal one because they are truly just hurting themselves worse and digging themselves into a bigger deficit.
ReplyDeleteInstead of complaining, if people went out and got jobs, there would be nothing to complain about. Problem solved. People have the right to do whatever they want, but if they don't go to college or work hard to get a good job, when there lives are shitty they only have themselves to blame. They have the right to protest, but they don't have the right to protest against people that cared enough about their lives to work hard.
ReplyDelete