I hesitate to admit this, but I haven’t paid much attention to the huge (or what I perceive from across the pond as huge) Occupy Wall Street movement. I have read a few tweets about it and a few articles, but I am not fully aware of the impact it is having, if any. But one thing that has come to my attention is that some celebrities have supported the movement and some have profited from the movement.
Jay-Z’s Rocawear clothing line has started to produce “Occupy All Streets” shirts which is clearly based on the title of what some are referring to as the largest social justice movement of our generation. The only hitch here is that the company has no intention to share profits with the movement. Jay-Z earned $63 million last year, a grotesque amount of money considering the current economic state of the world, but I digress, yet still refuses to share profits. As a result of his “Scrooge” like tendencies, sculptor, Daniel Edwards, who supports the Occupy movement sculptured a totem pole which represents Jay-Z as the base topped by Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, Scrooge McDuck from Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” and Richie Rich. 
The only remaining question now is should Jay-Z’s company share the profits from the shirt with the organizers of the movement?
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