Anyone who can work in two in-context Monty Python references deserves
to be read.
By the way, while Wall Street may be responsible for bad things, it is
Wall Street who financed putting a million miles of fiber optic cables
crisscrossing continents and under oceans. It is Wall Street that
financed the thousands of cell towers. It is Wall Street from which
venture capital comes to finance startups like Twitter. Thus, tweeting
"Down with capitalism" from your iPhone for those around the word to
read seems to be the most ironic thing a person can do. The live stream
from the protest site, shared with 12,000 (at this moment) people across
the Internet is a testament to Wall Street\'s allocation of capital that
these protesters fight against. [Obligatory Monty Python
reference]
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That the protest is dominated by Internet savvy youths exploiting social
media is frequently mentioned. But what is not mentioned is the fact
that the protesters are overwhelmingly college students, or recent
graduates who still haven't found jobs. They aren't just any college
students, but the stereotypical sort that you might expect to be
involved in campus activism, such as graduate students in "Gender
Studies." I found nobody with engineering or science degrees, but many
from arts and acting colleges. After talking with one guy for a while
about unemployment and his difficult in finding a job after college, I
found out that he was a "poet." I'm not sure he understood that
employers aren't looking to hire poets. The only person I met that had a
political science degree was one of the police officers "keeping the
peace."
[Errata Security: Independent reporting of
OccupyWallStreet](http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/10/independent-reporting-of.html#more)