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“Street protesters’ demands work best when they’re simple enough to fit in a short declarative sentence, for example “Mubarak must go”. In this case the appropriate courses of corrective action aren’t like that, involving things like a financial-transaction tax, separation-of-concerns regulation, and eliminating institutions which are “too big to fail”. So, it isn’t OWS’ job to make the proposals, anyhow; that’s what professional politicians are for. Their job is to express popular anger in a way that convinces the pros that taking immediate strong action is in their own best interests. Looks like they’ve made a good start.”
ongoing by Tim Bray · Occupying Wall Street
I’m liking Tim Bray again.
