Profit is wealth. Do people have an inherent right to wealth? If profit is a right, then it should be an equal right to all, else it makes each of us second class to those who are accorded this right.
Or maybe profit is not a right. Maybe the truth is, if you are able, you should do something for others in order to earn the privilege of profiting. You are not entitled to people's money. You should be doing something useful to them. There should be an exchange of value.
The whole problem of the system that got set up by Wall Street, and what has people protesting there by the thousands, is that millions of people have lost jobs, lost retirement savings, lost their health to feed the system that Corporate America set up, unconstrained by real rules.
I'm all for helping those in need. I also think that if you're not in need, you should earn what rewards you get, whether you're Joe Smith down the road or Wells Fargo downtown. We need incentives, we need challenges to make us productive, healthy, happy people. I believe in Capitalism. And I believe Capitalism has been corrupted into something that bears only a textbook resemblance to the system that made America one of the richest, most powerful nations in the world.
The banks need to realize that there are limits to people's patience with their greed, especially when no real value is returned for all the investment, all the cost, all the Nickel and Diming.
Wall Street is being occupied because folks haven't gotten their moneys worth from all that Wall Street has taken. And the more they keep on taking, the more Americans are going to want something back. They haven't cancelled out the reckoning, they've only postponed it, and the interest is adding to the principle that these bankers owe to us all.