Occupy Wall Street Movement

Occupy Wall Street Movement

Ed M Rosado

Business Ethics

Dr. Adrienne Garabedian

3 February 2013

Occupy Wall Street Movement

Introduction

The occupy Wall Street movement began on September 17, 2011, when a group of advocators started a slackly organized protest which was dabbed “occupy Wall street”, set camp at the privately owned park Zuccotti park in New York’s financial district. The protest was sparked by social inequalities, corporate greed and mordant powers of the leading banks and the international corporation over the democratic process. Their overall idea is that our economy should switch from a capitalistic one to a socialistic one where everyone can benefit from the similar pay and healthcare. Changing the way our society and government are run will take a lot more than a few thousand people protesting for equality when they have no basis for their argument except that the wealthy CEO’s make too much money compared to the rest of us. Well of course they do, they usually have plenty of experience, have graduate and Master’s degrees which they had to pay a lot of money for, not to mention the level of stress they have.

The purpose of the Occupy Wall Street movement is to fight back against the system that has allowed the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. Many people have many different backgrounds and political beliefs. The Occupy Wall Street movement works to achieve their objectives by resist, in the strength and belief of civil unrest. The movement took to the streets to protest growing economic disparity, abuse of power, and corporate greed.

1. The moral and economic implications involved in the movement are discussed bellow.

The moral and economic implications involved in the movement are what make the basis of the movement protest. These are; to provide a logical but spontaneous platform to tackle their grievances which included social and economic inequality, corruption, greed and the excessive influence of the...