I'm trying to understand the Occupy Wall Street movement. Best I can tell, the issue is a deep, long, unevenly distributed recession that has resulted in an even more (perceived?) unequal distribution of wealth.
I'm having trouble seeing the proposed solution. The interviews I've seen and read seem to indicate there are some policy solutions (Government interventions) that need to occur in order to right this wrong. Yet, I've seen no concrete proposals from the protesters as to what those policies are and how they would solve the problem.
I just don't understand protest for protest sake.
Don't tell me the problem. Help me find the solution.
I'm not opposed to tax reform that ensure simplicity and some sense of fairness (although I probably have a different definition of fair than you, or you, or you). I'm not necessarily even opposed to some sort of incentive-preserving wealth redistribution policies (although I think they do more harm than good to those who they are designed to help).
Guilting the rich into giving up their wealth won't work. Guilt may be a powerful incentive, but greed--in the Greed is Good sense--is even more powerful.
The Wall Street Occupiers are pointing this out.
OK.
Then what?
