Most of the world lives on $1500 a year or less. The protesters in America that are protesting some kind of inequality between the rich and poor should take a hard look at global inequality. Americans even at the poverty level in this country are in the top 30% or so of the richest people in the world!
When I look at the protesters I see people that have never missed a meal in their lives, people that have never known real hardships, people that think the world owes them something.These are the worlds fat cats protesting because they have been minorly inconvenienced by current hard times.
The real transfer of wealth takes money out of every Americans pocket.
Its still OK for people who are "part of the 1%" to wake the f@#k up.
So if they are there arm-in-arm with the rest, that perfectly fine. It doesn't mean that you have to come from poverty in order for you to want more equality in the world.
That is exactly the point.... it is gonna take more than just the poor people figuring it out to effect some positive changes.... powerful people are going to have to step up for humanity... and wake the f@#k up.
If people in America cannot see they are privileged compared to others in the world and that leveling the playing field may mean "taking money for American's pockets".... they too need a reality check.
I live here in the US... its not like the idea having less is appealing to me.... but what is less appealing is knowing the people of the world, including me, are being victimized by a corrupt system.