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Originally Posted by amIblue?
Do you seriously not know skilled people who have lost jobs in this economy? Do you truly believe that everyone who is unemployed is just living in HPRL thinking that they are special snowflakes around whom the world revolves?
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I don't think this is what PiKA is talking about. I also don't think he's talking about shiftless, spoiled people. There are a lot of skilled, educated, and experienced unemployed people.
But, 99% is a whooooooooooooole lot of people, so:
The average American is under-educated, under-skilled, under-experienced, and lives paycheck-to-paycheck by chance (and in many instances by choice). This is a result of many factors including America's education system; and correlated with social class, gender, and race and ethnicity.
When people talk about this 99%, they need to understand what the average person in that 99% has on her/his resume`. Those who are well skilled, well educated, and highly experienced are the minority of that 99%. This is why people need to be realistic about the types of jobs that this 99% expect to have access to in this global economy. I think that is what PiKA2001 is saying.
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That also speaks to how this Occupy (Someone's) Street movement has way too much going on. There are tons of submovements within this movement. People are pretending that many of those within this 99% are not responsible for some of the conditions that people are complaining about (which can be linked to why anti-capitalists like Marx's working class revolt against the capitalists never happened). For instance, if people want to complain about gender and race discrimination in the workplace, the top 1% are not the only ones to blame for that. People want to say "we're marching around the nice houses of those who make more money than we do...but we're not mad at you all, we're mad at the owners of your companies." In that case...get the hell away from my neighborhood and stalk those owners of our companies.
I just see so much irony and hypocrisy in this 99% movement. As I told my colleague who gave me a flyer for our city's "occupy," I don't mind "occupying" something but I'm not going to silently pretend that this 99% has been a united front across race, gender, social class, and other demographics and dynamics. They may prefer I stay my ass at home that week. LOL.
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