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ELI5 - Why are people occupying Wall Street?
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There is a huge amount of wealth in America.  If you look at a graph of US GDP, you see that we produce more and more every year.  The wealth is out there.

Yet, every year, Americans feel more and more squeezed.  We don't feel like we're getting a share in this tremendous wealth we're creating.  In fact, quite the opposite: we feel like we're receiving less and less every year, even though we're producing more and more.

Americans are confused about this.  They don't understand how it came to pass that all our money goes to corporate executives.  They know that in the past, that when a company made money, all the employees would benefit, not just the executives.  They know America doesn't work that way any more, and they don't know why not.

Furthermore, Americans believe that the people who actually *make* the cars are the real "wealth creators," not the GM executives who take home big salaries while making terrible decisions.  Americans rightly see hard workers, not executives, as the engine of wealth, so it particularly rankles that the executives get all the benefits, and the regular employees always get scraps.

They may not understand economics, but Americans are smart enough to follow the money.  They don't understand how it was done, but they strongly suspect that somehow, the executives orchestrated the whole thing.  They just don't really know the details of how it was orchestrated.

So they're standing outside Wall Street, pointing at the people who they see as responsible, hoping that somebody will figure out what to do about the problem.