Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Occupy Olympus- brainstorming for list song


How the 1% exploits the 99%

·      Multitasking
·      Unreasonable demands
·      Delegating
·      Golden parachute
·      Shareholding
·      Entitlement
·      Labor exploitation/low pay without benefits/slavery
·      Deception
·      They make the rules/laws/lobbyist
·      Tax evasion
·      Self-serving/funding decisions
·      Union busting
·      Getting the 99% to buy into the system
·      Convincing 99% that if you follow the rules, someday you’ll be rich!
(“American Dream,” “pull up by your own bootstraps,” “this is good for you!”)
·      “Everyone benefits!”
·      manipulating the media
·      controlling the narrative –“winners write history”
·      doctoring reports
·      prioritizing management over labor
·      encouraging patriotism
·      jingoism
·      saying sacrifice is patriotic
·      corporations reward shady tactics
·      lack of engagement with problem of the poor
·      outsourcing
·      debt economy
·      False concern/lack of action
·      “I worked for this”
·      Hoarding/unwillingness to change
·      Fear of change (“socialists”)
·      Blaming the poor

How the 99% perpetuate the problem

·      Give up
·      No hope
·      Ignorant of the system
·      Blaming others
·      Living off/abusing the system
·      Irresponsible youth/teenage pregnancy
·      Gambling
·      Consumerism
·      Entitlement, i.e. “poor me”
·      Poor nutrition/ignorance of preventative health
·      Fitting in
·      Following orders
·      “they would never do that”
·      staying numb
·      Medicating
·      Loving fear
·      Not my job
·      American dream
·      Isolating
·      “Divide and be conquered”
·      looking for freebies
·      “My turn to win”
·      Disorganized
·      Lack of unified voice
·      Unwillingness to change/willingness to settle
·      Lack of initiative
·      Bystander syndrome
·      Lack of courage/risktaking
·      Demonizing Us vs. Them mentality
·      Lack of education
·      Ennui
·      Apathy
·      Infighting/backbiting
·      Lack of direction
·      Lack of clarity
·      Inability to lead
·      Hope that “one day I will be the 1%”
·      Misplaced anger
·      Racism
·      Blaming a religion/ethnicity/race/immigrant group
·      Lawsuits
·      Looking for the easy way out
·      Opportunism
·      Fear
·      Fear of success/fear of failure
·      Bitterness
·      Anger
·      Jealousy
·      Blind obedience

Power Icons

·      Donald Trump
·      Richest guy in the world in Mexico—Carlos something?
·      Bernie Madoff
·      Mitt Romney
·      Lance Armstrong
·      George Bush
·      Kim Jong Ah
·      The Kardashians
·      Justin Bieber
·      Leona Helmsley
·      Kathy Lee Gifford
·      Daniel Mudd
·      Dick Cheney
·      Lindsey Graham
·      Speaker John Boehner
·      The NRA
·      Arms Dealers
·      Sam Walton (Walmart empire)
·      Arnold Schwarzenegger
·      Sarah Palin
·      Paris Hilton
·      Jamie Dimon (CEO of JP Morgan)
·      Jeffrey Bewkes (CEO of Time Warner)
·      Kanye West
·      Human & drug traffickers
·      Marck Cubin
·      Dubai
·      Citigroup
·      Morgan Stanley
·      Koch Industries
·      Madonna
·      Exclusive clubs
·      Sweat shops
·      Plutocrats
·      Any member of department stores
·      Rupert Murdoch
·      Any member of corporations
·      Profit mongers

Economic Worries

·      Student loans
·      Health insurance
·      Paying for childcare
·      Raising a family
·      Buying a house
·      Paying rent
·      Affording housing
·      Bad credit
·      Transportation costs (car breaks down)
·      Food
·      Shelter
·      Credit card debt
·      Loans w/ high interest rates
·      Cost of education
·      Affording retirement
·      401K
·      saving for the future
·      Dealing with catastrophe
·      Natural disasters – economic crisis
·      Unpaid internships
·      Temping
·      Taxes
·      Arts programs (education)
·      Unemployment
·      Social security
·      Benefits/pension
·      Death of small business
·      Debilitating illness
·      Decreased funders
·      Bottom liners
·      Inflation
·      Consumerism
·      Impulse buying
·      Prescription drugs
·      Home shopping network
·      Smart(est) phones
·      Splurge
·      Saturated market
·      Metrocards
·      Gas and oil
·      Identity theft
·      Internet scams
·      Credit card fraud
·      Burial and funeral costs
·      ATM copy fraud and in credit/debit swipes in stores
·      “I won’t have enough!”
·      WARS/terrorism/homeland security (in comparison to other countries)
·      Value of the dollar around the world
·      The collapse of Wall Street/World Financial Bank
·      Embezzlement
·      Bail outs
·      Keeping up with China and other countries
·      Going green—finding alternate sources of energy

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