Steve Jobs helped democratize information. His company also outsourced jobs to undeveloped regions and helped millions rise out of poverty. But those factories also drove their employees to the brink with long working hours and bleak conditions and the result was a rash of suicides. 

Now everyone who chooses to work for a living in the developed world is learning, with the help of IT like Apple, that prolonged high unemployment means that their life is being devalued whether they are lucky to have a job or not. And while that also means that millions of people in undeveloped countries now dream of eating meat and driving a car for the first time, they also realize that in a global economy those benefits can vanish as fast as they appeared if they do not work long hours without benefits. 


Workers in a globalized economy are expendable. People who work for a living are being devalued, whether they have a job or not and whether they live in a developed country or not. And the governments who represent those people have been bought off by the 1% and refuse to see the problem. That is what Occupy is about.