Forbes India spoke to Guillaume Marceau, one of the many organisers of the Occupy Wall Street movement that is gathering pace
Guillaume Marceau
Age: 34
Designation: Member, New York
City General Assembly, one of the organisers of Occupy Wall Street movement
Career: Ph.D. student in Computer Science at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) University
Education: 2002-2006 graduate student at Brown University
Interests: Maths, arts and programming
Q There has been disdain for capitalism as a whole...
This is a movement against corruption, criminality, cronyism, and regulatory capture.
Decisions [are] made by the rich in order to enable their thievery. Returning to a democratic capitalism would be an improvement.
Q How did this movement begin?
Technically, the movement began in late 2008. The crash and bail-outs revealed the recklessness of Wall Street banks. Over the next three years, we saw the impact of those decisions. Banks and corporate profits bounced back quickly to their pre-crash levels, while 99 percent of the people saw widespread unemployment and strife.
(This story appears in the 18 November, 2011 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)