![You have to confront folks with their wrongdoing if you expect to ever see each other eye to eye.
@thea-renee: I agree, a legend would have been a nice addition to this graphic. If you care to read on, clicking the image takes you to the full article, and it includes links to the original paper that was the reference for the graphic.
» Occupations of top 1 percent: John Bakija, Williams College (PDF)
Go to page 66 for the list. ”Table A.1 — Job Classifications Used in This Paper, Part 1” (medical is on page 67).
As for your other feedback, you are certainly entitled to take the position of turning a blind eye to wrongdoing, on the account that “you don’t think it is/was intentional.” Just the same, ignoring a problem doesn’t exempt you, or anyone else from culpability.
I tend to believe that you have to confront folks with their wrongdoing if you expect to ever see each other eye to eye. And you need to know that person, in order to know how, and to whom to direct your concerns. Contrary to how you assessed it, I think the report attempts to put a face to the people many have been more nebulously referring to as “the 1%.” And I’m pretty sure the data that makes up the report is derived from real individuals, with real jobs and real lives.
-[bLaK.]
thea-renee:
While I do appreciate this for the information it provides, I think it’s a little misleading.
First of all, “medical” is a pretty broad category. Are we talking doctors? Plastic surgeons? Medical/pharmaceutical company execs? Because I know it doesn’t include most of the individuals I know that work in the medical field.
Secondly, I think that by trying to identify the 1% as some categorical group we are denying them their personhood. They are individuals as well. And I truly believe that the vast majority of them mean no intentional harm to the rest of us. I think it’s an issue of ignoring the problem rather than actively creating it.
I think that the power of the 99% movement comes from the fact that it demonstrates how the experiences of the 99% are all so different, and yet we can all relate to them or empathize. Seeing the 1% as some faceless enemy that we can fit in a box is not only inaccurate, it’s self-defeating if we ever hope to come together and work towards solutions as 100%.
blaktivist:
Occupy… the C-Suite?
-[bLaK.]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsw4v8Z3kX1qzllk3o1_500.png)
You have to confront folks with their wrongdoing if you expect to ever see each other eye to eye.
@thea-renee: I agree, a legend would have been a nice addition to this graphic. If you care to read on, clicking the image takes you to the full article, and it includes links to the original paper that was the reference for the graphic.
» Occupations of top 1 percent: John Bakija, Williams College (PDF)
Go to page 66 for the list. ”Table A.1 — Job Classifications Used in This Paper, Part 1” (medical is on page 67).
As for your other feedback, you are certainly entitled to take the position of turning a blind eye to wrongdoing, on the account that “you don’t think it is/was intentional.” Just the same, ignoring a problem doesn’t exempt you, or anyone else from culpability.
I tend to believe that you have to confront folks with their wrongdoing if you expect to ever see each other eye to eye. And you need to know that person, in order to know how, and to whom to direct your concerns. Contrary to how you assessed it, I think the report attempts to put a face to the people many have been more nebulously referring to as “the 1%.” And I’m pretty sure the data that makes up the report is derived from real individuals, with real jobs and real lives.
-[bLaK.]
While I do appreciate this for the information it provides, I think it’s a little misleading.
First of all, “medical” is a pretty broad category. Are we talking doctors? Plastic surgeons? Medical/pharmaceutical company execs? Because I know it doesn’t include most of the individuals I know that work in the medical field.
Secondly, I think that by trying to identify the 1% as some categorical group we are denying them their personhood. They are individuals as well. And I truly believe that the vast majority of them mean no intentional harm to the rest of us. I think it’s an issue of ignoring the problem rather than actively creating it.
I think that the power of the 99% movement comes from the fact that it demonstrates how the experiences of the 99% are all so different, and yet we can all relate to them or empathize. Seeing the 1% as some faceless enemy that we can fit in a box is not only inaccurate, it’s self-defeating if we ever hope to come together and work towards solutions as 100%.
Occupy… the C-Suite?
-[bLaK.]
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