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 Posted: Fri 12:56, 02 Aug 2013 Post subject: How Occupy Wall Street Is Alienating the Young 1%_ |
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| . Britain's public school boys have long since dispensed of the sexy egalitarianism of the men who attended Oxbridge in the early 1800s. (Think Byron and Shelley.) That my better-compensated friends are already subverting populist rhetoric -- shades of Bertie Wooster -- is evidence of how disconnected from the cardboard sign-wielding crowd they feel socially despite holding overlapping political beliefs. Rampant unemployment among young men -- 14.4% for males between 24 and 24 and 22.4% for high school grads from 20 to 24 -- has also created an emotional schism between the consistently and intermittently employed. Occupy Wall Street has given the anger of discontented young men a voice without clearly articulating the fear at the root of our concern: that we'll backslide; that we'll do worse than our fathers. Even as young guns at financial firms have begun to feel the squeeze,http://pradaoutletonliner.yolasite.com/, the wall between the quartiles has remained thick and high. A Times piece on layoffs prompted a flood of nasty comments |
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