In spite of the current economic turmoil, some Americans do not have any problems with jobs, money or housing. Indeed, Houston oil executive John Schiller built a new Cape Cod house for just $50,000 a couple of years ago. A bargain, you might think, except that this was a play-house for his four-year-old daughter, a two-story structure occupying 15.8 sq. meters and complete with running water, a refrigerator and a 32-inch flat-screen television.
Maybe it was a bargain because the New York Times, which wrote almost 2,000 words about the booming business of making play-houses for kids, reported that some of them could cost up to $200,000.
No wonder that restlessness and inchoate stirrings of revolt have reached the very gates of the bastions of capitalism, Wall Street in New York and the City in London. For days, protestors have been encamped in both financial capitals raising banners, flags and voices against injustices of the modern economic system. They have touched a popular global spark and 951 cities in 82 countries have seen similar marches, demonstrations or sit-ins. We represent the 99 percent, the protestors proclaim.