While the richest nation in the world struggles with a higher unemployment rate, some young citizens pretesting against Wall Street in NYC entered their 18th day of demonstration to show that they need a job which has been deprived by the greedy corporate people who take the lion's share of the nation's entire profits.
The protest reminding me of the Arab Spring seems to quickly spread like unstoppable wildfire, and the recent riots of the UK also crossed my mind. It is reported that advocates of the protest started to camp out on streets from LA to Maine. Even if there is little likelihood of such protests turning into the similar riots of the Rodney King case, the privileged class needs to listen to anger and frustration of the young Americans.
One protester said that he applied for over 100 jobs and received no response. Yes None out of 100. He earned his master's degree in English from a state university.
With prolonged and chronic disappointment after job search, they are sick of the social system that can't offer a place to work. It can be possible that some of the protesters want the protest to develop into violent demonstrations across the nation like the Arab Spring. Such people sees disparity over hope. And they wish to ask who took their hopes away. And they found the answer at Wall Street.
In particular, It is daunting for college students concerned with their job prospects. Worse, there seems to be no exit of this recession soon.
Though there is an old saying that nobody can address poverty, not even the king of the world, it is time for the rich class armed with cash and social power to ponder over alleviating the powerless vying for basic needs.
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