Articles by Elizabeth Barrett
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Beyond Occupy: A Campaign to Decentralize Wealth and Its Associated Power
Elizabeth Barrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
September 17th [2012] was the one-year anniversary of the first Occupy Wall Street protest, which was held in Zuccotti Park in the financial district of New York City. The Occupy movement grew out of the natural rage people felt about the massive transfer of wealth from the public sector to certain people in the private sector during the bailout of the financial industry. The goal should be to decentralize wealth before it is accumulated, rather than after. Contrary to the current thought that also started with Adam Smith in 1776, human beings actually are not a commodity known as “labor” – they are living, breathing people.
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