We are the 99%

• Dempsie wrote on 2011-10-05 00:51
  http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/
  My brother found out about this web site. It's depressing to say the least, the world we live in is absurd. 1% of the adult population owns all the worlds wealth. The rest of us, the 99% are left struggling.
  I am one of the 99%, are you?
• Chihaya wrote on 2011-10-05 01:24
  That's sad...
  
  I definitely know I'm the 99%...
• Kollin wrote on 2011-10-05 01:33
  I am part of the 99% club.
• Chihaya wrote on 2011-10-05 01:35
  All I know, is that when I graduate, I'm going to have a $200,000 debt under my parents name, and I'm going to have to pay it off.
  
  It's really unfair that in this world, people who work hard and genuinely are those taken advantage of.
  Why is that people like that are hated, even though they're the most respectable ones??
• Dempsie wrote on 2011-10-05 01:40

  Quote from Chihaya;608651:

  All I know, is that when I graduate, I'm going to have a $200,000 debt under my parents name, and I'm going to have to pay it off.
  
  It's really unfair that in this world, people who work hard and genuinely are those taken advantage of.
  Why is that people like that are hated, even though they're the most respectable ones??

  
  Greed is the problem, the most powerful men and women in this country(and the world) for the most part are greedy. I really wish I could go protest in Wall Street but I live too far away. School keeps me from going to the protest coming up in my state capital.
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-10-05 01:42
  I'm part of the 99%. I'm almost done with my BA. By the time I finish getting my BA I'll owe the government around 80k if not more. I'm becoming a teacher. There is no job market for teachers. My state just decided to cut the education finances by $350 million for next year. The student population is increasing, while teachers are decreasing. On average there is 38 student to one teacher. One. It's no wonder our education system is ****, we're not giving the students enough resources and we're not giving the teachers enough time.
  
  I can't get a job.
• Dempsie wrote on 2011-10-05 01:46

  Quote from Lilith;608659:

  I'm part of the 99%. I'm almost done with my BA. By the time I finish getting my BA I'll owe the government around 80k if not more. I'm becoming a teacher. There is no job market for teachers. My state just decided to cut the education finances by $350 million for next year. The student population is increasing, while teachers are decreasing. On average there is 38 student to one teacher. One. It's no wonder our education system is ****, we're not giving the students enough resources and we're not giving the teachers enough time.
  
  I can't get a job.

  
  Stories like yours make me want to cry. I have been reading through these posts on the websites and they almost bring me to tears, the world should not be like this. I want to help all these people but I can't, I'm to young and poor. I know this though if I was part of the 1%, I would do everything I could to help the 99%.
• Kollin wrote on 2011-10-05 01:53
  I'm almost done with high school and will be going to college soon and i am absolutely dreading it because of the costs. I am going to try and enter the Pharmaceutical field which has a fairly high demand for new employees due to the rapid growth of health care and pharmaceutical industries.
• Strawberry wrote on 2011-10-05 01:54
  There are very few of those greed-driven people who are that 1% to share their wealth with some of the 99% of the population that's struggling to even live. Even if we are the 99%, we can always rely on each other to survive and such. I mean like, I even see the homeless people down-town where I live sharing food and such that they end up getting from people that decide to give it to them as they pass by. Some of them are even lending coats and such to others that are extremely cold.
  
  Even if 99%'s support each other, it's just not enough to help some people survive. So that's why if I ever see anything struggling to survive and if there's anything I could possibly do to them, I'd help them. Maybe I wouldn't be able to make a difference in their life, but it's better off to ease their suffering at least a little bit, even if it has minimal impact.
• Dempsie wrote on 2011-10-05 02:01

  Quote from Strawberry;608671:

  There are very few of those greed-driven people who are that 1% to share their wealth with some of the 99% of the population that's struggling to even live. Even if we are the 99%, we can always rely on each other to survive and such. I mean like, I even see the homeless people down-town where I live sharing food and such that they end up getting from people that decide to give it to them as they pass by. Some of them are even lending coats and such to others that are extremely cold.
  
  Even if 99%'s support each other, it's just not enough to help some people survive. So that's why if I ever see anything struggling to survive and if there's anything I could possibly do to them, I'd help them. Maybe I wouldn't be able to make a difference in their life, but it's better off to ease their suffering at least a little bit, even if it has minimal impact.

  
  That's what I try to do for people, but seeing as a I live in the suburbs there aren't many people "homeless" or "on the streets asking for money".
  My brother however, is a college student and passes through some of the rough places in Indianapolis. He sometimes wishes he could stop his car and buy food for the homeless at Steak n Shake, but has no time. Though he gives spare change while walking from class to class, he tells me every little bit helps, if they spend it on alcohol; oh well it gets them through the day.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-10-05 02:02

  occupywallstr.org

  
  
  [video=youtube;ER9bo0UR440]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER9bo0UR440[/video]
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2011-10-05 02:03
  I think the problem is that capitalism is destroying itself over time. Meanwhile, capitalism is the currently the best economic system we have.
  
  At least, those people have enough resources to post their paper/face on the website, and access to camera. For some parts of the world, these people on the website would seem like the 1% to them.
• Dempsie wrote on 2011-10-05 02:04

  Quote from EndlessDreams;608681:

  I think the problem is that capitalism is destroying itself over time. Meanwhile, capitalism is the currently the best economic system we have.
  
  At least, those people have enough resources to post their paper/face on the website, and access to camera. For some parts of the world, these people on the website would seem like the 1% to them.

  
  Very true...
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-10-05 02:05

  Quote from EndlessDreams;608681:

  For some parts of the world, these people on the website would seem like the 1% to them.

  
  Actually, they are.
  
  Not saying that there's no need for a drastical improvement of life standards in the underclasses of most industrial countries, as there very certainly is, but this is pretty ridiculous.
  You might not be part of the 1%, but you're still part of the 5%.
• Dempsie wrote on 2011-10-05 02:21

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;608687:

  Actually, they are.
  
  Not saying that there's no need for a drastical improvement of life standards in the underclasses of most industrial countries, as there very certainly is, but this is pretty ridiculous.
  You might not be part of the 1%, but you're still part of the 5%.

  
  
  Well, in those comparisons, everyone is part of the upper echelon. You can't use that perspective, because it doesn't work like that. They're comparing the wealthy to everyone, you're comparing isolated areas to everyone. It's like comparing a city to a state on poverty rates, the city will also seem to have more under the poverty line than the a state as a whole. You have to account for far too many things in those places, and it complicates the comparison; cost of living, wages, etc.
  
  Although, I do agree. We are far better off than those people in those countries, that is blatantly apparent. The point of the "I am the 99" movement, I guess you could call it, is showing that even with how poorly we have it as part of that 99, there are far more even worse off.