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