OWS, explained by Teddy Roosevelt
“Too much cannot be said against the men of
wealth who sacrifice everything to getting wealth. There is not
in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting
American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent
only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the
basest uses — whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck
railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and
expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of
high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter. Such a man
is only the more dangerous if he occasionally does some deed like founding
a college or endowing a church, which makes those good people who are also
foolish forget his real iniquity. These men are equally careless of the working men, whom they
oppress, and of the State, whose existence they imperil. There
are not very many of them, but there is a very great number of men
who approach more or less closely to the type, and, just in so far as they
do so approach, they are curses
to the country.”
(via Sullivan)