“The protesters are right that something is wrong about our ‘system.’ Around the world, we have underutilized resources – people who want to work, machines that lie idle, buildings that are empty – and huge unmet needs: fighting poverty, promoting development, and retrofitting the economy for global warming, to name just a few. In America, after more than seven million home foreclosures in recent years, we have empty homes and homeless people. The protesters have been criticized for not having an agenda. But this misses the point of protest movements. They are an expression of frustration with the corruption and the electoral process. They are an alarm.”
- Nobel prizewinning economist Joseph Stiglitz
(Source: project-syndicate.org)
