{"id":4621,"date":"2014-01-22T22:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T03:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2014-01-22T22:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T03:44:28","slug":"you-cant-do-what-jesus-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t do what Jesus can do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AuqemytQ5QA?feature=player_embedded\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kevin O&#8217;Leary, co-host of the &#8220;Lang and O&#8217;Leary Exchange&#8221; on Canadian television, has an interesting argument for why it&#8217;s good that the richest 85 families control the same amount of wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people. \u00c2\u00a0 From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/kevin-oleary-oxfam-poverty-fantastic\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic and this is a great thing because it inspires everybody, gets them motivation to look up to the one percent and say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<strong>I want to become one of those people, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to fight hard to get up to the top<\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>This is fantastic news and of course I applaud it. What can be wrong with this?<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think striving is great and it&#8217;s good to have role models (and I doubt anyone is denying this), but these particular role models (even the one percent on his expanded version) are very far from being meaningful. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s somewhat like asking what Jesus would do: \u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chances are, it&#8217;s beyond your capabilities<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin O&#8217;Leary, co-host of the &#8220;Lang and O&#8217;Leary Exchange&#8221; on Canadian television, has an interesting argument for why it&#8217;s good that the richest 85 families control the same amount of wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people. \u00c2\u00a0 From Talking Points Memo: &#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic and this is a great thing because it inspires everybody, gets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4621\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You can&#8217;t do what Jesus can do<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1836,1716,1835,1834],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-income-inequality","tag-kevin-oleary","tag-lang-and-oleary-exchange","tag-what-would-jesus-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}