Do you have friends saying: "I really don’t get what these protestors are on about?” “But what do they hope to achieve?”
Have a look at these easy to read slides written by a business friendly US website:
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10
Perhaps a more useful question will then arise: why are they and so many others still NOT angry ?