I don't know where you got that info from, but the OWS crowd, although educated in some of the finest schools, are not intelligent enough to understand Bitcoin.
"Maybe the followers think that somehow it's going to change the distribution of wealth..."
The developers of Bitcoin don't believe in the redistribution of wealth, that's one of the main reasons they developed it, nor is wealth distributed by Bitcoin.
bitcoin followers are all going to get rich and the rest of the poor saps are all going to lose to the "banksters"
Although I don't believe that is the intent, it very well may true!
You would do well to study up on it, before you judge it, you snooze you lose!
“The developers of Bitcoin don’t believe in the redistribution of wealth”
I didn’t think anyone knew who developed the bitcoin?