{"id":3765,"date":"2015-07-11T07:33:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T07:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2015-07-11T07:33:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T07:33:49","slug":"uk-wealth-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3765","title":{"rendered":"UK Wealth Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThe usual response when someone brings up the subject of the rich being just&nbsp;<em>too<\/em>&nbsp;rich, is to mention the &quot;politics of envy&quot;. &nbsp;Which is a great way of suppressing a reasonable discussion of the matter; anyone would think that the phrase was invented by the rich to protect their excessive wealth. Most people would agree that those who work hard, are creative, and contribute towards the nation&#39;s wealth should get a bit more than a chav living on benefits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFair enough, but they already do &#8211; and far more than people realise. And not all of the rich&nbsp;<em>do<\/em>&nbsp;contribute a great deal towards the nation; many of them are merely sitting on growing piles of wealth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aOJ93tAbPP0?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The usual response when someone brings up the subject of the rich being just&nbsp;too&nbsp;rich, is to mention the &quot;politics of envy&quot;. &nbsp;Which is a great way of suppressing a reasonable discussion of the matter; anyone would think that the phrase was invented by the rich to protect their excessive wealth. Most people would agree that <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3765' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-YJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}