Yes, "help help were being oppressed," is being said by the CEO of a financial giant.
That the average human has the audacity to question people influencing our politics though their financial machinations. Destroying our ecosystem through extraction and utilization policies that subvert the needs of most people on the planet. Exploiting our labor and not only making a profit on that but also profiting on us a second time by insurance, housing, and mortgage rates that keep workers in perpetual debt. And the act of speculating on food commodities raising the prices for foodstuffs while skimming profit off said speculation. This is now considered discrimination?
I think not.
With Occupy Wall Street making headlines again, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who’s been a target of the movement in the past, took a second to acknowledge some of their “legitimate complaints” on Thursday. While recognizing that Washington and Wall Street let America down, the head of what many consider America’s strongest bank asked the Occupy movement not to put every one-percenter in the same bucket, calling that a “form of discrimination.”
It’s striking to see Jamie Dimon, the CEO of one of Wall Street’s most powerful banks, agreeing with those that have demonized him and his industry. Dimon spoke on Thursday after receiving the executive of the year award from the Simon School of Business.
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“[There’s] two things they generically complain about I agree with,” began Dimon, after being asked his about the Occupy movement. “The average American [can] look at the institutions of America and [say] they’ve let me down: these are Washington and Wall Street,” explained the banker.