The point is in a technological society the average person can not make what they require so they depend on others.
Correct, and those "others" are capitalists. They produce a product or service for others and make a profit. In a free market system, any number of people can compete for market share, and the consumer can have options to decide between quality and price, which best suits their needs. Creative or innovative companies may or may not succeed, there is always a risk taken.
Take food, for instance. The price of food has risen sharply. Why? Has the cost greatly risen to produce it? Oil goes down in price. Did the price of gas drop accordingly?
In the case of food, transportation costs are through the roof. When Obama became president, gas was below $2 a gallon. We've now absorbed the realization of the massive increase in fuel prices. as well as other regulatory burdens Obama's administration has placed on capitalist business. The result is massive inflation. Oil prices don't always reflect the price of gas, you also pay a state and federal gas tax, and most of these have gone up. In addition, the regulatory mandates required of refineries to produce proper formulas, etc... all contributes to the cost of a gallon of gas at the pump. But it's easier for a pea-brain like you to blame the greedy oil company.
People ask what the "Occupiers" are complaining about. The fact Wall Street is making loads of money is secondary to the fact the Occupiers are losing money, ie: paying more for products while earning the same or less.
"Wall Street" is a physical place, it doesn't make money. Companies trade stock on Wall Street, people make profits and experience losses through trading stocks, and generally there are risks involved, much like gambling. In a free market capitalist free enterprise society like we have here in America, if you feel that someone is overcharging and making obscene profits, you can go into a business partnership with others and form a 'corporation' and you can provide the product or service for a lower price, and become rich and famous, and resoundingly popular with the masses. This has actually happened, many stories... Sam Walton, saw that K-Mart and Sears were all in the big cities, overpriced, and not serving customers well... he built an empire on small town America, reasonable prices, good customer service. Colonel Sanders... knew people wanted fast food fried chicken, and every attempt at it sucked, so he developed a way to pressure fry the chicken, and became successful. Best Buys.. Big Lots... Home Depot.. the list goes on and on. These people saw a need and filled it, and they profited from it. That is capitalism.
Much of what drives the cost of things up, is government regulation, taxes and fees. Cost of litigation... Cost of compliance... all the bullshit heaped on capitalist ventures by our beloved government. Every bit of it drives the cost of providing a good or service. Banks... we hear all this hullabaloo about The Banks... but the Banks are the front group for all this massive bloated governmental regulation and requirements! They are the ones expected to comply with the wishy-washy politicians in Washington, and still manage to keep the lights turned on at the end of the day. Like every other capitalist, the Bank is providing a good or service, and they do so to make a profit, but the cost to the consumer for this is largely determined by governmental regulations and mandates, the Bank is simply passing the cost on.
Society has become interconnected with a few corporations owning most things. Society is held hostage.
No... part of society has lost their ever-loving minds, and the democrat party seems to be ready to pick up their banner... not surprising to me.
These people couldn't even organize the basics without involving themselves totally in CAPITALISM! Reading the minutes to their General Assembly meeting online, was hilarious to me, I was so entertained I read for hours... Funniest stuff in the world, to see these hippies pontificate over whether they should buy sleeping bags and support 'the machine' or whether they should make their own from material... but then, shouldn't they weave their own fabric? lol it was a hoot!
Just as there are laws that in the event of a strike essential services must continue and the population can not be held "hostage" there needs to be something in place prohibiting companies from holding the population hostage. That, in my opinion, is what the Occupiers are complaining about.
AGAIN... in a free market capitalist society, you are perfectly free to go out there and provide that good or service at a lower price and be a hero! No one is being held hostage, capitalists do this every day... if there is a need not being met by others, there is an opportunity for a capitalist. Now the ever-growing burdensome regulations and requirements put on capitalists by the government... that's a different thing. We need something in place to prevent that, and maybe roll it back about 60 years. If we can get government the hell out of capitalism and let it work, the potential is unlimited.
