The "Occupy" style demonstration at the Alabama State Capitol got off to a slow start this morning. These photos are from right at Noon, the start time for the protest. I didn't stay, so perhaps the crowd grew later. The young man in the first photo said he was a 20 year old Army veteran of Iraq from Prattville, just north of Montgomery.
There's some interesting research which will soon be published in PLoSOne that demonstrates the truth of what much if the OWS folks have been claiming about corporate convergence, power, wealth and greed.
ReplyDeleteThe previously unexamined side is that the convergence of economic power has a weakness which is innately tied to the chain, so that in domino-like fashion, when one firm falls or gets sick, so do all the others.
Developing ideas on how to prevent that inherent instability will be the next area of econimic research.