Occupy Wall Street has continued to grow and spread over the previous months into not only a national movement, but an international one. Recently, it seems, the movement, which refers to themselves as “the 99%”, have even converted another group to their cause: the other 1%. Similar to ultra-rich mogul Warren Buffet asking President Obama to raise his taxes, a group of alleged One Percenters has come forward in support of the other 99%. This group, called The Resource Generation, has been plugging their message on social media networks. A mission statement on their website reads: “We believe that we have more than we need, while the 99 percent struggles to survive. This has to change. We believe in an equitable distribution of wealth.”

OWS and their supporters have been accused by many of attempting to precipitate a class war, in which the more numerous middle-class attempts to, through political and social action, redistribute the wealth of the nation. With The Resource Generation chiming in, it seems that the tenor of “class warfare” may change to a consensus movement toward greater equality.

However, political analysts and opponents of the OWS movement are skeptical. Since social media and the website is anonymous, there’s no way to actually tell whether the members of The Resource Generation are actually in that 1% of earners group, or are even moderately wealthy and interested in speaking up in support. Some have accused the rank-and-file OWS protestors of fabricating The Resource Generation to lend more credibility to their movement. Steven Schier, of Carleton College in Minnesota, had the most balanced response, telling Christian Science Monitor, “This group does exist, but its resources beyond a Web presence have yet to be demonstrated. The tea party, for example, was able to call on thousands of activists for large public demonstrations. This movement is going to have to demonstrate similar resources over many months for it to have an effect on the national agenda.”

The Resource Generation has teamed up with Wealth for the Common Good, an organization of business leaders who support fair taxation, whose cofounder, Chuck Collins, admonished critics of The Resource Generation. ““People don’t disclose their tax returns – that is a frivolous objection, I’m sorry to say. We don’t ask people to financially disclose as a requirement for speaking out – nor does any other advocacy group in America.”

It may be unusual to hear of the wealthy asking the government to tax them, of publicly supporting a movement that would seemingly hurt their own finances. However, that may also be something particular to our culture (and some others) as well. In 2009, right after the deepest part of the global recession, Germany’s most wealthy organized themselves to ask the government to tax them more. They didn’t need a groundswell like Occupy Wall Street, but did it of their own accord. It’s not unheard of, just no hear of around here.