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> I know people who are skipping payments just to be in solidarity with people who can't pay. So they're donating what would have been spent on rent to an appr

• rabidrat 6y ago
  Yeah they're donating the money to their self-in-3-months, who has even less than they do now, with no job and no prospects and no bailout on its way.
  • api 6y ago
    Exactly. They're thinking of it as an act of simultaneous self-preservation and civil disobedience to the fact that bailouts are only for huge banks and corporations. The perception, which is at least somewhat true, is that Wall St. and DC will be saved and the rest of the country can burn. From what I've seen, the 1% vs the 99% is catchy but wrong. The reality is more like the 0.01% vs the 99.99%. We are probably nearing the point where we will see actual change, since we're approaching a place where the wealth distribution hockey stick is so steep the upper middle class and "merely rich" will start seeing themselves as "the 99%." You'll see working class and hippies marching with lawyers, doctors, and owners of businesses that make "only" a few hundred million a year (and don't have lobbyists). Wish it didn't have to get that bad, but that appears to be the case. We'll probably do something about CO2 when NYC is underwater.