Someone posted this comment at Carpe Diem:
"The mostly young crowd packing into NYC to protest against capitalism is all over the news now. There is a certain irony to their declarations against “Big Corporations” henceforth referred to as (BC)
They arrived in their cars, (BC) in airplane(BC)s, and on busses(BC) They alert each other to gatherings over Twitter(BC) and the Internet(BC) using their IPhones(BC) and Ipads (BC)They stay tuned into the latest music(BC) with earphones(BC) plugged into their Ipods. (BC) They wear Nikes, (BC) Reeboks(BC) and Earth shoes(BC), Levis, (BC) Gap (BC)and Old Navy(BC) clothes and smoke cigarettes made by “Big tobacco”. (BC)
They hold signs printed on paper(BC) with markers (BC), beat drums(BC) and use megaphones(BC) to shout out their anti-business slogans. They use the toilets(BC) at McDonalds(BC) and eat food (BC) at any handy eatery(BC). When they use the bathroom they wipe with toilet paper(BC) while sitting on a toilet (BC) and washing their hands in a sink (BC) using soap. (BC)
In short, every single need, want or desire of their lives has been supplied every step of the way by Big Corporations. Were it not for Big corporations they would have had to have heard about the protest from smoke signals from fires lit by flints and burning wood cut with stone axes. They would be dressed in animal skins and would have walked barefooted on dirt paths to get to NYC. They would be doing their business behind trees and wiping with their bare hands. At night they‘d be snuggled up under a homespun blanket made from the fleece of their own sheep.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that without Big Corporations no one would be there at all. Everyone would be too busy just trying to stay warm and fed.
