Opinions

The Occupy Wall Street movement has created much debate over the past few months. Some believe that the movement is completely right - that the wealthy have increasingly been growing wealthier while the poor have increasingly been growing poorer, widening the wealth gap, that large corporations shouldn't be able to get away with they things that they do, that something should be done about all of this. The other camp believes that protesters are ignorant, and over-exaggerating - sure, the gap is getting bigger, sure, multi-billion-dollar corporations get away with a few things they perhaps they shouldn't, but Wall Street is not directly responsible for any of this, and they do not display proper knowledge of the accurate factors leading to the current situation.
I fall somewhere in between these two camps. I understand that the American Dream is no longer as tangible as it once was, and that the gap between wealthy and poor had grown much more noticeable over the past few years, but in comparison to many other countries, our 'poor' aren't as bad off. Additionally, I agree with the second camp that the movement is under-educated in some of the matters at hand. So, I'm not going to go protest against the wrongs of Wall Street, but I get the perspective.