Wall Street protesters: We're in for the long haul

[The Brain]

Except you ain't done shit.

Exactly.

I may the establishment's leash dog, but over the past year, I burned over 200 hours of what otherwise would have been billable time to get the city to restore several million dollars worth of benefits to families with children.  What exactly has grallon done to have any tangible impact on the problems in this world?  Because whining about your bosses while meekly punching your time card, and daydreaming fantasies about violent paroxysms of revolution doesn't actually change anything; it just marks you as an ineffectual wannabe with some future risk of going postal.

So you shuffle money around? That's Wall Street noble. Must feel good to actually make something.

[The Minsky Moment]

So you shuffle money around? That's Wall Street noble. Must feel good to actually make something.

It may not be as creative as experimenting with DIY  human-goat hybridization, but I do my best.

[The Brain]

So you shuffle money around? That's Wall Street noble. Must feel good to actually make something.

It may not be as creative as experimenting with DYI human-goat hybridization, but I do my best.

I am on the verge of a breakthrough.

[garbon]

I feel sure the aristocrats in Versailles sneered down at the crowds who took the Bastille

I doubt it - not unless they had a very strong telescope.

What is it about wannabe radicals and inability to grasp basic geography?

[garbon]

As for what I do to better this world - nothing of course.  It's not worth saving.  People are scum - when will you all get that into your thick heads?

G.

If that's they case, why do you whine about people being sucky? What's the point?

[Neil]

Why did they even mace those girls? They were already penned in behind a fence.

Because they were at a protest.  Isn't that enough?

[Razgovory]

As for what I do to better this world - nothing of course.  It's not worth saving.  People are scum - when will you all get that into your thick heads?

G.

If that's they case, why do you whine about people being sucky? What's the point?

I think his low opinion of humanity has to do with who he spends most of his time with.  If I was a child rapist, I'd have a low opinion of the rest of humanity as well.

[Neil]

As for what I do to better this world - nothing of course.  It's not worth saving.  People are scum - when will you all get that into your thick heads?

G.

If that's they case, why do you whine about people being sucky? What's the point?

It's a very French thing to do.  Grallon makes a critical mistake in thinking that just because human life has no special meaning or value, that we it shouldn't have meaning for us.

[Grallon]

As for what I do to better this world - nothing of course. 

Not quite true anymore - I've just been badgered into donating an amount on every paycheck for the starving children in Africa.

Well I like the girl who did the badgering so I humored her. 

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In any case let's get on with our usual rowing.

@ Garbon - I happen to be very appreciated where I work - and was offered promotions on 3 occasions - which I turned down because I can't be arsed to deal regularly with the incompetent managers I mentioned above.  I enjoy what I do - but it deserves to be paid more which is the main beef I have with the job.  10 years ago - the same job I have now was paid 30k more than it is now...  See what I meant?



G.

[Ideologue]

I like Quebec.  None of that up-or-out bullshit.  People can have their place.

[crazy canuck]

Tax write off?

Sadly the time is not tax deductible.

In NYC (and elsewhere around the country) the volume of cases that require attention vastly exceeds the resources of the existing legal assistance organizations, which have to rely on donations of time and resources from the private bar to fill even a small part of that gap.

I applaud you. The thing the Grallons of the world forget is the amount of work the "elites" to do without praise or acknowledgment.  We all try to do our bit but nobody will ever know what we accomplished - except us.

[Grallon]

I applaud you. The thing the Grallons of the world forget is the amount of work the "elites" to do without praise or acknowledgment.  We all try to do our bit but nobody will ever know what we accomplished - except us.

Cry us a river while you're at it. 




G.

[garbon]

@ Garbon - I happen to be very appreciated where I work - and was offered promotions on 3 occasions - which I turned down because I can't be arsed to deal regularly with the incompetent managers I mentioned above.  I enjoy what I do - but it deserves to be paid more which is the main beef I have with the job.  10 years ago - the same job I have now was paid 30k more than it is now...  See what I meant?

G.

So you turn down promotions and then complain about your lot?

[crazy canuck]

I applaud you. The thing the Grallons of the world forget is the amount of work the "elites" to do without praise or acknowledgment.  We all try to do our bit but nobody will ever know what we accomplished - except us.

Cry us a river while you're at it. 




G.

Coming from a guy who grudgingly gives to charity.  You are a good example of what is wrong with your generation.  Feeling entitled and bitter and not willing to do a thing constructive about it.

[Razgovory]

I don't think anything about anyone else can be extrapolated from Grallon.