Oh great, Google blew our cover. Geofan, you seem polite so don't take this the wrong way but I'm going to address a few points in your post:
First
While not an active protestor I feel there is some confusion so , from the point of a left leaning individual with close friends currently protesting , and at times a sign holder myself , let me try and explain . The movement as I understand it has severe libertarian undertones.
No, it doesn't. Or rather, there is zero evidence in the movement's public face, interviews with protesters or the signs being held that it has any libertarian undertones at all. Trying to take other folks stuff is not libertarian.
I'm going to skip feudalism, progressive taxes and "social safety nets" except to say I think you'r probably mistaken, and there is verifiable upward mobility in our society. It's not easy, but it does exist. I would also posit that it's not any
harder to get rich now then it was in the past.
P.S. I hope one day in the future we reach a point as people where one man does not will not and can not exploit another , I beleive this is at its core a bad thing, this doesnt make me so nieve where I dont see it as a nessasary reward in the competitive world we live in , but I think of it more as a nessarry evil as opposed to an attribute. by this I mean the act of proffiting off of anothers work , something I think we all can agree big buisness and wall street are very good at , in fact that might be all they do!!!
It does make you naive. Sorry. The world is a competitive place. Not just human society, but the world in general. It always will be. If you allow yourself to be exploited, someone will find you and exploit you. That's just the way life is. It's your responsibility to not allow yourself to be exploited. I also think you vastly underestimate the amount of skill, work and dedication it takes to be successful at "Wall Street" or "big business".
(Hard) Truth be told, to folks that are actually out there in this country working at bettering their own life, these "Occupy [blank]" protests are a joke, and the folks spending weeks holding signs are either irrelevant burnouts, or spoiled naive students. Sorry.