Lawrence Lewitinn, 38.
"My angle is a lot different than a lot of people here and I probably don’t agree with what a lot of people are calling for but nonetheless I think it’s important that it’s here. First of all because it’s their right to speak. Second these are frustrated people who feel left out. And it’s a scary time. I think the people here are taking out their frustration, especially in a city like New York where you see such a...
more »Lawrence Lewitinn, 38.
"My angle is a lot different than a lot of people here and I probably don’t agree with what a lot of people are calling for but nonetheless I think it’s important that it’s here. First of all because it’s their right to speak. Second these are frustrated people who feel left out. And it’s a scary time. I think the people here are taking out their frustration, especially in a city like New York where you see such a heavy dichotomy between the rich and the poor. They come into contact every day with them, about 1 in 8 jobs in New York City is in the financial services industry, including mine. I work at a hedge fund, I’m the bad guy. And I was one of those people saying that these are not the 99% these are the children of the 1%. But as it grows, the fact that you’re now starting to hear the frustration, it’s evolved. It gives people who are working here [Wall Street] a chance to say 'Maybe we have to be careful with what we’re doing'.
The financial system in a lot of ways is rigged, it’s not meant for the small investor. We can argue on what caused the housing crisis but it preyed on people. It basically confused them. Yeah they should have known. But I look at it this way: big government, big labor, big business, any time one of the three is happy somebody is getting fucked. By big labor I mean the top echelons of the labor unions not the rank and file. By big business I mean large corporations that are using the government to block out competition and which took advantage of the situation to profit off of people’s ignorance of the financial system. It’s a problem.
In my opinion government regulation won’t work in the way that this does. I don’t think that targeting income is what would do it. I think if we went back to the way things used to work, property taxes. Income is productivity, property taxes is where they store the wealth. That’s what I would love to see changed, go back to
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"My angle is a lot different than a lot of people here and I probably don’t agree with what a lot of people are calling for but nonetheless I think it’s important that it’s here. First of all because it’s their right to speak. Second these are frustrated people who feel left out. And it’s a scary time. I think the people here are taking out their frustration, especially in a city like New York where you see such a heavy dichotomy between the rich and the poor. They come into contact every day with them, about 1 in 8 jobs in New York City is in the financial services industry, including mine. I work at a hedge fund, I’m the bad guy. And I was one of those people saying that these are not the 99% these are the children of the 1%. But as it grows, the fact that you’re now starting to hear the frustration, it’s evolved. It gives people who are working here [Wall Street] a chance to say 'Maybe we have to be careful with what we’re doing'. <br />
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The financial system in a lot of ways is rigged, it’s not meant for the small investor. We can argue on what caused the housing crisis but it preyed on people. It basically confused them. Yeah they should have known. But I look at it this way: big government, big labor, big business, any time one of the three is happy somebody is getting fucked. By big labor I mean the top echelons of the labor unions not the rank and file. By big business I mean large corporations that are using the government to block out competition and which took advantage of the situation to profit off of people’s ignorance of the financial system. It’s a problem. <br />
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In my opinion government regulation won’t work in the way that this does. I don’t think that targeting income is what would do it. I think if we went back to the way things used to work, property taxes. Income is productivity, property taxes is where they store the wealth. That’s what I would love to see changed, go back to](https://www.edgarmata.com/img-get/I00008L7nb4ogMrQ/s/750/600/111013-0057.jpg)
