Remy's Occupy Wall Street Protest Song
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2024
- As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads like a, well, financial contagion through global markets, intergalactic Internet sensation Remy and Reason.tv give the movement its anthem.
Written and performed by Remy and produced by Meredith Bragg.
About 2.45 minutes. Go to reason.tv for downloadable versions. Subscribe to our RUclips channel to get automatic updates when new material goes live.
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Lyrics to the "Occupy Wall Street Protest Song"
Come gather round people
come and join your hands
we're taking Wall Street
and we're making demands
and we're heeding the call
and we're crying for help
only 1% of us have wealth
but first we need posters
we need to make signs
but to do so it seems
that we need some supplies
We need poster board
I can't make it myself
but it's 10 cents a sheet
at the store it's on sale
an example of economies of scale
it's so evil
They're saying that freedom
has done little to stop
Corporations from keeping
the wealth at the top
But at what point in history
would a kid and a king
both have clean water to drink?
George Washington was
the richest man of his age
But he lost all his teeth
at a very young age
Because they didn't have Scope
and they all crapped in trays
we're not wealthy?
now there's fountains on streets
from which clean water pours
Four dollar generics
at all big box stores
a sultan and student
both have iPhone 4s
it's not fair
Come gather young people
come on everyone
and I'll tell you a tale
of a fortunate son
He's born in a country
and given vaccine
and rendered immune
to all kinds of disease
the Kardashians are on
all his TVs
it's not perfect
Banks don't need bailouts
on that we agree
so let's start up a group
and let's take to the streets
because if we do that then
you know what that means
we're racist.
[End]
"...a sultan and student both have I-phone 4's; it's not fair..." lol
My favorite line. lol
lol
You want to hold companys accountable for exporting jobs? Why do you think they do this? It's your precious regulation and state intervention that makes these jobs unprofitable in the first place. If you want to fix the system, stay the fuck out of it.
exactly and it's so obvious if you think about it for like 3 fucking minutes
Yeah. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that there's such horrible destitution in parts of the world that 9 year old kids are willing to work 16 hour days for literally pennies. I agree that regulations and shit are retarded (and Remy is along the same political views - Libertarian), but let's not pretend that other people's suffering isn't enabling companies. Companies are there to make money at minimal cost, and for that I don't blame them. But we just cost more because we are treated like human beings.
So true, but I doubt most understood it.
im doing better than a billionaire in the 1700s its pretty self explanitory
Remy is very libertarian. That's awesome!
This has aged quite well. 🙂
Cept the vaccine part, maybe?
@@miki09876 I'm still enjoying my MMR, DTP and tetanus vaccines.
@@miki09876grouping all vaccines together is like saying all fruits are the same
@@ClyDIley don't get me wrong y'all. I'm grateful for vaccines including the COVID vaccines. Just pointing out that Anti-vaxing went from a fringe left issue to a semi-fringe bipartisan (but moreso right sided) issue.
Where do public health and
Governmental overreach overlap? Questions since before John Snow pulled the handle off the Broad Street pump...
All your tunes are awesome but this is definitely the best. Such a clear, true, straight forward, undeniable message.
Well now people are complaining about vaccines...
students united i reckon is better!
@megarational "Most millionaires come from middle-class households, and roughly 65% have been wealthy for less than 15 years, according to a 2009 survey of high-networth individuals, published by American Express Publishing and Harrison Group."
FACTS
@TheTrueHaddock You are not entitled to anything but your life, liberty, and property rights.
Remy is a true genius. I am putting Jordan Peterson to the side and replacing him with Remy as my new cultural hero.
"Capitalism ate democracy" Now tell me one democratic republic that is not capitalist.
North Korea
GJ, do you want a cookie?
Ko Dan Chocolate chip will suffice
@@matrixman8582 that's a "Democratic" "republic" in name, not in function
@@tylermoore397 No it's democracy in action
Holy crap. You're right. I'm surprised that I didn't realize this earlier.
This has aged so very well.
Remy is awesome, as usual.
as long as you have a job, even a min wage one, americans are the top 1% of the world
Remy is the best. Amd all the butthurt proggies who wanna hate just reveal the classic insecurity of a man who knows he is wrong but won't admit it.
I want to know the chords so I can play and sing this song to my fellow hippie students.
It's so ironic how the people who work are greedy, just because they picked a job that pays well, while it's supposedly compassionate and brave to demand that people who earned their money give it to you. How is that not greed?
The theme song of the 'Occupy' movement is Antem of the Working Man by The 99%. In the tradition of Simon & Garfunkel and Dylan, the song explores the growing divide between the very rich and the rest of us -- as well as the Animal Farm premise that they can tell us anything they want to tell us -- and we continue to believe them.
Awesome, best part was when he held up the "Bring Back Arrested Development" sign.
Remy. I love you.
And looking at the state of our country now, I have to agree on both issues. As for college, I do agree that college should be affordable, but the better schools cost more. Havard would be so prestigious if it cost the same the same as an Education from DeVry.
LOL. Great stuff Remy. Keep on keepin' on.
"Bring Back Arrested Development!"
I agree!
@megarational I think what you meant to type was "increasing their share of the nation's wealth", though you can be forgiven for omitting the possessive, since there is no such thing as a "nation's wealth". In a free society, the wealth belongs to individuals and is increased through innovation, economies of scale, and trade. If you object to the forceful appropriation of wealth, then you should object to government bailouts, crony capitalism, etc.
@MrTredwell It follows a similar chord pattern, but the tune isn't exactly the same. Then again, a lot of folk music follows that pattern. Jimmy buffet has said that in all of his songs, he only uses three chords.
This song rocks.
The left and right felt the same tension between those at the top and those at the bottom, but understood them differently. This was the divide between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.
So good
2:20 - "Banks don't need bailouts, on that we agree".
Best Remy song ever.
You (the banks) can get given money at a 0.25% interest rate by the Fed when the 'official' inflation rate is 3.8%, which means effectively that they are PAYING you a 3.55% interest to 'take the money'. So for example, you take your initial $100M, you borrow $900M from the Fed to get a cool billion. You buy commodities that maintain their value over time. A year later you sell showing an 'on the books' profit equal to the CPI. You pay back the loan and pocket the profit.
Thats whats remys all about.
@LibertyDownUnder totally agree w/ Paul. But again you're conflating issue. So take Bear, Lehman, Goldman, AIG. None of these entities were mortgage originators. They simply speculated in these markets. Lehman didn't go under for making bad loans, they bet huge amounts of money on securities backed by these loans. 2 completely separate issues. The F & F story is complicated. But make sure to 2 conflate.
Check this out:
@markablanton. I wouldn't put a limit on the amount an individual can contribute to a campaign, but I'd be okay with that. The problem as it stood before the SCOTUS decision was that certain groups of people could pool their money and donate, but not groups that were labeled "corporations". I say we either let anyone or any group contribute what they want or we limit it to just individuals.
In fact (like all ReasonTV gags, actually) it is so on-the-nose and yuk-yuk semi-funny that it's surprising Agence France-Presse is reporting it like the lost Jerry Lewis sessions
I love this song because it shows that 1) People don't have their priorities straight (students with massive debt owning iPhones) 2) That people who live in the US are better off than most other countries (decent medical facilities, clean water) 3) That hard work pays off 4) When there's big businesses that compete, everyone wins (prices drop, new innovations are formed. Imagine if Microsoft didn't have Apple to compete with. We'd have Windows 2 1/2 and computers the size of Ron Jeremy's penis).
@niclasjt "NK has, as the USSR had, a politically and economically dominant bureaucratic caste that uses community for its own comfort....." It's true that the political class in communist countries have tendency to stick their hands in the cookie jar, but it's irrelevant. All that still represented a small fraction of the Soviet consumption. Their problem was that after the first generation or so, the communist incentive structure had so depressed the people that they ceased being productive
Love the Arrested Development sign.... Wish it said Peep Show!
Thankyou OWS...you just awarded the Whitehouse and the Senate to the Republicans in 2012. Like Obama and Nancy Pelosi...you are the gift that keeps on giving! Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!
Ten years ahead of it's time!
I know, and that is dumb. They shouldn't have bailed them out. To put it like Stefan says "The opposite of pro is con and the opposite of congress is progress."
@lubneh Capitalism doesn't promote greed,it rewards enlightened self-interest. Greed is when your emotions overcome your reason. Capitalism punishes the greedy because greed leads to short-sighted decisions. All you people are driven by envy. The US has incredibly high standard of living, probably the highest outside of small specialty economies. What you're protesting is the fact that some people get incredibly rich. Those of us not driven by petty jealousy understand this is a GOOD thing.
One of the things that makes this country great are the exceptional folks who literally break their backs to see their businesses survive, an in so doing better the lives of ordinary citizens who are comfortable with the "status quo" Many entrepreneurs literally fall and rise again countless times before making it.. It is disgusting to see such misguided anger against WallStreet. Bankers on WallStreet literally work 100hr weeks!! how many of the folks protesting can work a 70hr week??
excellent
I just cant get enough of this song.... You deserve some kind of prize! The Reason Prize of 2012…
I live in New York. Occupy Wall Street started out as a very small movement. I didn't even get any details, but as soon as I heard about it, the first thing I immediately thought was that whoever they are, they need to be in front of the Federal Reserve Board and Capitol Hill in Washington not Wall Street!
11 years later and we still haven't figured it out. It's the FED we should've stormed. WE STORMED THE WRONG BUILDING!
@niclasjt "they have healthcare." Uhhh, we have healthcare. 85% of Americans have health insurance. Our problem is prices are artificially inflated by massive regulations and licensing. If the gov't regulated the auto industry as stringently, the price of cars would double and a ton of people wouldn't have a car. OTOH, they ration services. And while their primary education may be better than our state run system, US higher education is second to none...because it's largely private.
@JaySee5 He's not making fun of their 'message', he is mocking the general ignorance on the part of most of the protesters.
@orbenn The $100K a year is house hold income and not personal income, so yes there are a reasonable number of people earning $100K a year with still having no real wealth. Wealth does not = income. If you have 3 kids with both parents working for a total of $100K, you have 30% going to taxes, in a city you have 35% going to your housing, leaving you $35K to pay for everything else, plus save to kids college (Which means saving $300K over 20 years or 15K a year) then retirement ~$10K a year.
Literally the best song I've heard in a while
LOL -- Perfect! A bit more of this and maybe they'll all sulk home , embarrassed. For another bout of fun, google "lori ziganto" "ditch the coke nail" .... (I don't think RUclips allows links in comments anymore, so that's the best I can do)
People are acting as if this recession is the worst thing this country has ever faced. Just back in 2006, even consumers were on the real estate kool-aid. Now all of a sudden we should socialize Wall Street? Like really people?
In “Occupying Chairlifts” a simple rule tweak on inheritance ends up changing the direction and purpose of modern human life! Here’s a fair way to transition forward to where we’re rewarded for cooperating and creating instead of competing and conquering.
It's something specific we can demand. If this isnt the best answer, at least we’re thinking about what might be. Are we really just this close to having it work right?
Oh yeah, it's a Ski movie! “Occupying Chairlifts” on RUclips!
that was really cool.. he has a good voice and it made me laugh.. thanks
Love it.
Wonderful! This says it all in 2:49.
Then....your complaint has nothing to do whatsoever about your standard of life being unacceptable-rather, that people who've been able to work out how to make money have also learned how to properly invest it, and hence, have a significant leg up in life over those who failed to do so. Wealth isn't a zero sum game you know. That one becomes wealthy doesn't preclude you from being successful. But out of curiosity, if living standards aren't a problem, what's wrong with a wealth gap?
Bring back Arrested Development! Lol.
@megarational 3 men were brought up on charges that violated Anti Trust laws.
The first guy said he charged more than everyone else, he was charged with profiteering and price gouging.
The second guy said that he charged lower prices than everyone else, he was charged with predatory pricing and cut throat competition
The third guy said he charged the SAME PRICE as everyone else, he was charged with collusion and cartelization.
J-O-K-E JOKE! Please, I would love to see one that existed
@luvcheney1 If it was 7% of 60 years, and 6.75% last 40 yrs, and 5.7% over the last 20 years, there is a valid argument to say the 6% for future earnings is too high as it fails to follow the trend. It would likely be true that most people if the saved in an IRA rather then with SS, they would likely have a reasonably higher level of income, but realistically we are talking maybe $1300-1500/mo. Because it is not a change from 0% to 6%, it is 4% to 6% with added risk.
I see remy I click like.
I agree with you except for 4 and somewhat on 2. We don't need big businesses competing against each other we just need businesses to compete. Big business hates competition and uses government and the courts to stop it. That's why Steve Jobs sued anyone in the smart phone market. And yes the US is a great place to live but so are many other countries that have copied our ideas while implementing their own policies. As for 1 I think college should be affordable but we shouldn't bailout students.
We need more Remy
@Catmanfondoo You said there should be a $ limit to political donations - which amounts to a limit on the speech of the donating individual to voice their support for a candidate or a certain issue. Government limits on campaign finance donations (and in the Supreme Court case, the TIMING of the speech as well) amount to nothing more than censorship of political speech. Someone, somewhere, has to determine to donate the money - even for corporations. Why should those individuals be limited?
Remy is the man of the hour
George Washington lost all his teeth because they didn't have scope and they crapped in cans, lol!!!!
I'm still laughing at that.
The definition of 'wealthy' is relative. What's considered poor in this country would be considered wealthy for millions around the globe. If you expect the wealthy of this country to share their wealth with you, then you should be more than willing to share your wealth with those who you are far more successful than too.
If you want to take today's salary, you need to inflation adjust the end result. So, used todays salary you need to adjust the final income by 40 years and your $700K is now $120K, and you don't retire using the S&P, you use more secure interest at a lower rate, so you really get 4% when retired. So 4% of 120K is 4.8K a year or 400 a month in interest. Those this isn't right either as you would earn an insanely low wage at the end.... So you need a more complex equation that increases wages.
@dd09999 I would be remiss to not point out that Larry Summers is a voice for statism, not for the free market, which our current economy bears little semblance to. Libertarians would be quick to point out that the pollution problems we currently have simply would not exist if the commons were in fact private. The issue for me is that I am far from certain that selling the commons to a then 'landed' aristocracy would not perhaps be worse, though for different reasons than pollution.
Profits prevent a mis-allocation of resources in the economy. Profits are also signals to producers of goods and services of what an economy needs most at any given time. Therefore, profits are signals to other people in society that they should be producing those other types of goods and services because there are profits to be made. As more people go into that industry because they see those profits, those profits end up diminishing over time because of competition.
Yes!
hollyhoodjoe that further proves our point. I manage a store where we sell those iphones. I make a good living, have full benefits and am not whining about not being union. Those people who buy those phones pay on avg 2k throughout the contract to have them.They aren't poor. Finally, because Im a little detail particular I will tell you that the iphone 4 starts at 199. The 3g was discounted.
I'm sorry, but that doesn't address my point. Yes I drink clean water, I have decent possessions, I get to go on decent holidays and eat decent food. And I earn decent money. Far beyond the average wage. I accept that I live in a country where technological progress and plentiful resources (often at the expense of others - but let's not go into that subject now) has blessed me.
But the wealth gap that's becoming a chasm, the glass ceiling that's being reinforced - these are the salient points.
Well the cost of the college doesn't necessarily make it more prestigious but yes colleges that cost more do tend to be better. But there are many less expensive public schools that rival top private colleges such as UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, University of Virginia, UT Austin, and the University of Michigan.
@luvcheney1 But the bail was intended to halt the collapse of of big companies who were obviously too big to fail, but companies like Goldman Sachs, receive $70 billion in TARP, then use that to buy more troubled assests with OUR tax money, write down the debt to AIG, pay us back with 23% interest and end up making $3 billion in profit in one quater. I didnt know that my job as a tax payer was to make big companies even bigger.
OCCUPY WALL STREET SAID THOMAS JEFFERSON- new OWS music video with an interesting statement by Jefferson that's very prophetic of these times. It's got Captain Midnight doin his thing too!
@megarational: What deception? Yes, there are tax cuts for the rich, but that only leaves them more of their money. Most of the subsidies still go to middle and lower class. Let's take your argument and spin it further. If I would concede that you are right with your severe problem of widening poor/rich gap, how would you stop that? How would you get more equality? Taxing the rich? Slowing the economy?
We have luxury and taxes on the rich in France, but this doesn't eliminate poverty ^^
Great song. My musical approach is a bit different "Occupy Wall St. aka Eat the Rich" sonic graffitti to muddy the waters.
@ryguy331986, without the Fed, the big banks couldn't possibly be leveraged so much, so that would fix that problem.
And thinking that Government regulators would be smart enough know what the correct amount of leverage should be, ignores that fact that the regulators themselves did not see this banking crisis was developing. Even as late as 2005 Bernanke was saying he cannot see a housing bubble.
Rules on leverage wouldn't have stopped anything, they would have just delayed the inevitable.
@BIRDDOG551 I have heard a number of protesters that know a great deal about the economy, though clearly many don't. But it makes no difference if you protest wall-street or DC, the government is run by the people in the end so all the matter is you start taking action for change. It not like those in office will change it, in either party.
@pilha The conservatives were not that vocal on him, because Dylan himself did not care to get involved in politics.
@BIRDDOG551 Well, the was much of a government bailout of Hollywood, and there is currently an Occupy LA movement. But you can compare the top 5 actors in LA to the top 5 hedge fund managers. The top actor, DiCaprio, got $72 million with is a lot of money, but compared to the top hedge fund manager Paulson earned $4.9 billion. The is 68 times as much as the highest paid actor, or he earns what DiCaprio makes in a year every 5 days it is also likely more the every A-list actor in that year.
I think the problem with America is that we have it so good people don't look at history and see how bad it could be. Yes... it must be overwhelmingly hard to have a decent car, an average sized home, a computer, big screen tv, never go hungry, and have a fancy smartphone... But I don't have a premium insurance plan... so I'm not happy.
Great job.
@citizen73 Apparently you didn't do everything right. I know I sure didn't. But I don't blame other people. I look for ways to improve my lot in life. And I don't expect those who are successful to be forced to give up what is theirs to make up for what I don't have. If they choose to, then I appreciate it and am thankful. If they don't, that's their choice. Stop blaming others and start taking your life into your own hands. Be self sufficient and accountable.
Not everyone who works makes a lot of money but, they still work. It's greed to want more than you really want or need. Some people don't get paid enough for what they do like nurses, police, firefighters and, teachers and are now struggling to pay for their needs.
remy. WTF? how do you fucking deliver every fucking time
I wish he would have mentioned the same people lauding the life and accomplishments of Steve Jobs - the virtual embodiment of corporate America.
I can't agree more.
Yep.
Correct mispelling below: Anthem of the Working Man, by The 99%
@Militarized "I love how a lot of the things he mentions.... ancient civilizations had *facepalm* way to fail on that one."
You mean like clean water fountains? iPhones? Vaccines? TVs?
Water fountains were like the only ones
I know what you mean. Scores of thousands of dollars separate my granddaughter's income from my income. Many more scores between my net worth and hers. No doubt. She's a relative mighty poor relative to me. I'm gon' build her a sign and let her picket my house this weekend.
@DouginMountVernon I can't speak to thomaserossi's manners but he's right. The rich are already taxed in a much higher bracket. How much should they be taxed? I'm with the OWS crowd in saying that these businesses should never have been bailed out, they should fail if they deserve it but that's government getting involved where it doesn't belong, more of the same (ie getting government to mess with the private business realm).
That's the idea
While I don't associate with the Occupy movement, this song brushes aside the legitimate claims from the movement by making appeals to the obvious basic traits which make capitalism an okay economic system. The fact that capitalism provides water or the ability to buy an iphone doesn't change the reality that corporations have huge influence in Washington, that student debt is absurdly high or that Americans feel unrepresented by their political leadership. Those are, to me, legitimate concerns.
Caused by government. The solution to these people that are problens with government is more government.
Touché! The best part of this YT song are the comments from the angry, hating OWS tools who can't see the irony in their own greed and coveting of that which belongs to another. Can you say 'dumb as rocks'?
@ryguy331986, well it's the same point. They got the money from the Fed, and from loans guaranteed by the Treasury.
If the Treasury is going to print so much money and dish it out to Wall St - then yes, it should dictate what can / can't be done with it.
But the best alternative is for the Government to NOT print so much in the 1st place, and not to intervene in the housing market.
I've explained this to you 4 times already, so I'm going to stop now.
We have so much thanks to the free market system. If freedom is your priority, it's not perfect, but it's the best available. If equalizing results is your priority, your destiny will be the misery of "Workers Paradises" such as Cuba, North Korea, Soviet Union, etc.
A. "earns jack shit to work like slaves"
Solution: Work hard in school, get paid to go to college, don't work like slave.
B. "inherited and/or family connections"
Retort: Those damn tall people and their lucky genetics. We should protest that.