When Can We Start Breaking Things?

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This thread is a perfect example. People are railing against Wall Street and unnamed 'speculators' without taking any personal responsibility for their own economic conditions.

As a 22 year old who had never paid tax or voted or earned a real pay-check until after the the GFC what choices have I made? What franchises, of money or of votes, have I had at my disposal to make or influence the current situation what it is? The only choice I have made is that I was too busy being a child physically and intellectually to have any impact on the poop-storm the last generation decided I should have to live through.