Are the protests really "anti-capitalist"?

[love_rat]

A friend who is a diversity officer on £42 per annum, is disgusted with these capitalists who are a drain on our society.

 

His post as a diversity officer for toddlers in playgrounds is likely to be cut. For those wondering, his job was to go round to each park, and monitor the ethnicity of all the children who used the slides.

 

He is protesting at the capitalists who he says are a drain and a rip off to society HOOOZARRR

[GrapeApe]

A friend who is a diversity officer on £42 per annum, is disgusted with these capitalists who are a drain on our society.

 

His post as a diversity officer for toddlers in playgrounds is likely to be cut. For those wondering, his job was to go round to each park, and monitor the ethnicity of all the children who used the slides.

 

He is protesting at the capitalists who he says are a drain and a rip off to society HOOOZARRR

 

I'm sure that's somewhat untrue. By the way £42k is about one tenth of what the average bonus was for Goldman Sachs employees this year

[ElasticMan]

Ian Hislop put it brilliantly on HIGNFY this week when he said

 

'You don't have to want to return to a barter system in the stone age, to complain about the way the financial crisis affected a large number of people around the world do you??'

 

This was in response to the idiotic Louise Mensch complaining that some of the protestors bought coffee from Starbucks or had iphones...

 

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/10/22/watch-louise-mensch-mp-gets-ridiculed-on-hignfy-over-occupylsx-jokes/

[Murphy Jnr]

Ian Hislop put it brilliantly on HIGNFY this week when he said

 

'You don't have to want to return to a barter system in the stone age, to complain about the way the financial crisis affected a large number of people around the world do you??'

 

This was in response to the idiotic Louise Mensch complaining that some of the protestors bought coffee from Starbucks or had iphones...

 

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/10/22/watch-louise-mensch-mp-gets-ridiculed-on-hignfy-over-occupylsx-jokes/

 

Yeah saw that, her idea of capitalism centred around the fact that people bought things as though this somehow showed support for the very thing they were protesting against.

[love_rat]

I'm sure that's somewhat untrue. By the way £42k is about one tenth of what the average bonus was for Goldman Sachs employees this year

 

 

 

Point taken, yes it was a made up example.

 

HOwever, 42k per annum is what diversity officers get paid for non jobs.

 

Funnily enough many of these people with the non jobs were strangely silent during the new labour years when the true damage was being done.

 

I also accept that 42k is about a tenth of the goldman sachs bonus.

 

HOwever

 

42k per annum - if you were to divide that figure by 52 weeks, and then divide that figure by 35 hours (35 hours a week worked), then the diversity officer on 42k per annum is on £23.08 per hour.

 

Thats almost 4 times as much as someone on the minimum wage.

 

So the diversity officers, and no doubt many of these protesters are not exactly without a bob or two themselves

[Balpin]

Yeah saw that, her idea of capitalism centred around the fact that people bought things as though this somehow showed support for the very thing they were protesting against.

 

She, and the rest of of the Tories, have as much brain as our pet rabbit.

[Murphy Jnr]

So the diversity officers, and no doubt many of these protesters are not exactly without a bob or two themselves

 

I'm sure that's true but it's good to know that people from both camps rich and poor feel strongly about what they see as a major concern.

[love_rat]

I'm sure that's true but it's good to know that people from both camps rich and poor feel strongly about what they see as a major concern.

 

 

 

They were very silent during the 2001-2006 era when the real working class were being shafted.

 

NO doubt enjoying the champaine lifestyle, and the coffee bar ambience thate there hefty salarys gave them access to. NOt to mention, access to better areas in leafy parts of the city.

 

Now their cosy exsistance is under threat, they are out protesting. They backed the policies that shafted the true working class of this country

 

10 years too late, thats why nobody takes then seriously, but as they say "what goes around, comes around"

[I1L2T3]

Point taken, yes it was a made up example.

 

HOwever, 42k per annum is what diversity officers get paid for non jobs.

 

Funnily enough many of these people with the non jobs were strangely silent during the new labour years when the true damage was being done.

 

I also accept that 42k is about a tenth of the goldman sachs bonus.

 

HOwever

 

42k per annum - if you were to divide that figure by 52 weeks, and then divide that figure by 35 hours (35 hours a week worked), then the diversity officer on 42k per annum is on £23.08 per hour.

 

Thats almost 4 times as much as someone on the minimum wage.

 

So the diversity officers, and no doubt many of these protesters are not exactly without a bob or two themselves

 

It was made up wasn't it. Try and stay on topic.

[Murphy Jnr]

They were very silent during the 2001-2006 era when the real working class were being shafted.

 

NO doubt enjoying the champaine lifestyle, and the coffee bar ambience thate there hefty salarys gave them access to. NOt to mention, access to better areas in leafy parts of the city.

 

Now their cosy exsistance is under threat, they are out protesting. They backed the policies that shafted the true working class of this country

 

10 years too late, thats why nobody takes then seriously, but as they say "what goes around, comes around"

 

It's not been any different throughout the ages has it really. Upper ignored the existence of middle class and likewise middle showed contempt for lower in general but there have always been a few from each class that have recognised and rallied to support. They've been there but not in such numbers maybe.