Post #3796038
2026-07-05 12:43 UTC
As someone with lived experience going through occupy wall street, no it doesn’t. All I saw that accomplish was funds being embezzled, my friends get shot in the face with rubber bullets, and some of them now have criminal records. What did we get? A dollar raise to the already unliveable minimum wage.
Did anything change on wall street?
Hell no.
It got worse.
Sanders says that the rich own 93% of all the wealth this country produces.
Protesting didn’t do jack shit.
Protest now and you need to get a permit.
What in the fuck is that?
There’s key note speakers and performers and shit. That’s not a protest, that’s a fucking festival for people who have enough money to cosplay protesting
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@pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2026-07-05 14:57
I feel for your experience, but Occupy Wall Street famously had no clear set of demands - that was why no significant policy changes came from it. It was a valid protest, but with no stated legislative goals that could be enacted by politicians.