Opinion

The times they are a-changin’

Time for a reality check on the mic check.

So, was Occupy Wall Street an impoverished, underpaid generation oppressed by the monied interests? Not quite.

As a recently released survey shows, many of the OWS activists came from privilege. More than three-quarters were college-educated; one-third lived in households earning more than $100,000; two-thirds were employed professionals — all according to CUNY’s Joseph A. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies (not exactly a right-wing source).

And “diverse”? OWS was 55 percent male and heavily white.

In short, OWS pretty much resembled a white whiny earlier generation — the ’60s hippies and protesters who often came from equally privileged backgrounds.

But give the Woodstock generation their due: Their protests gave us some good music. That’s more than their anti-capitalism/pro-iPad contemporaries have produced.