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Well, when you're raised and told you HAVE to go to college, a lot of will she loans for it. Or they'll assume they'll have their job for a long time, and buy a
by jeffool 15y ago
Well, when you're raised and told you HAVE to go to college, a lot of will she loans for it. Or they'll assume they'll have their job for a long time, and buy a car/house, or have a kid. A bunch of dumb decisions? Not necessarily. Sometimes life just happens.
As for what they want, they want to feel like they have opportunities. I genuinely do think it's a discontent that's risen from feeling like their voice carries little/no weight in society, politics included, and that the control is in the hands of those with wealth. It's your garden variety populist uprising, only from the American middle class, so expect to see less blood and more coffee.
- rimantas 15y ago> A bunch of dumb decisions? Not necessarily. > Sometimes life just happens. No doubt about that. However I'd argue, that some of those 99% could have it differently if they wished so.
- jeffool 15y agoOh absolutely! And I'm sure many are the lazy freeloaders that are easily imagined. But I think honest mistakes count for much of it. Of course, that could well be wishful thinking!
- ordinary 15y agoI think the people now in Wall Street are doing exactly that. :) Not all change for the better comes about by buckling down and getting a second job.
- uriel 15y ago> A bunch of dumb decisions? Not necessarily. Sometimes life just happens. "If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT." — Frank Zappa