Occupy This

I have remained interested in the Occupy movement, mostly because I like to watch slow motion train wrecks.  I find the lull in activity humorous.  Obviously, winter has throttled the participation.  They want to protest, but only when it is comfortable.  They must have moved back to their parent's basement to play video games until Spring.

The movement was doomed to failure when the first doper drop out described the movement essentially as a college student welfare plan.  He wanted his student loans forgiven because large Wall Street firms were bailed out by the federal government.  It made no sense then, and still doesn't. 

I am fascinated by their requests for hand outs because their perceived greed by corporate leaders.  Doesn't that make the Occupy movement greedy?  If they covet the possession of those who have more than they, isn't that a form of greed?  They want what others have even though they haven't accomplished a thing to claim that right.  Does that make the 99% guilty of greed?  I think it does.

But as Michael Douglas said in the movie Wall Street, "Greed is good".  Good greed is what motivates us to accomplish things we can be rewarded for.  There is no reason to be ashamed of good greed.  As long as greed remains within the bounds of civility and the law, it is a force that delivers value into the marketplace.  Bad greed is the desire to acquire something undeserved.  Bad greed describes the Occupy Movement very well.