^ you underestimate the circumstances of the current generation of protesters. They have been trashed on the economic scrap pile since entering the workforce, not had jobs having a pick of vocations like the boomers.
Maybe I'm out of touch, but I really don't get this whine. Economic progress is so simple it is stupid. Create something of value that someone else is willing to pay you for. End of story.
I hear you, there is a spectrum of oppression, and I am not at all sure that any US citizen is truly oppressed and without opportunity.
That said, there does come a time when pulling oneself up by ones bootstraps involves burning the lords house and seizing his lands.
Only proper education is burning down the stupid (animals). Ever was, its the deep driver in human nature and works free of racism