That anyone would even want one is indicative of the issue.
(Mike check!)
Capitalism is not a social construct. It's a monetary construct. When investments by governments are held to standards of ROI created by MBA stat-heads and Wall Street quants...we are on a very slippery slope as a culture. Yet, this is where we find ourselves today. This is what the OWS protestors are seeing. This is why they are mad-as-hell-and-not- going-to-take-it-any-more.
Citizens United guarantees that corporate standards will be our legislative standards. This is a cultural disaster. Because those standards will never show that a well-rounded Education is a good investment. Or that Art has any kind of odds going in its favor. Or that the giving away of goods and services makes any kind of sense.
These oligarchical standards could never have allowed the federal funding for a children's theater like the one started in the 1930s by Viola Spolin...that became the genesis of improv theater in America...a business that has generated billions of dollars in transactions in the intervening years.
They could never have justified the calligraphy class that Steve Jobs enrolled in by pure serendipity...that pointed him toward an aesthetic sense that informed everything Apple produced.
The OWS people are protesting a system...that points inevitably.... toward limiting our possibilities, economically and culturally...instead of expanding them. Good for them for calling out the old narratives of might-and-white-make-right...and for suggesting that perhaps the enemy is not dark-skinned folks half a world away hoping to have a decent pair of shoes to wear next year...but pale men in pastel ties who buy $39,000 Olsen Twins designer backpacks for their daughters...and call it fathering.
100 percent behind the 99 percent here.