{"id":1210493,"date":"2023-09-13T05:58:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T05:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=293923"},"modified":"2023-09-13T05:58:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T05:58:47","slug":"the-tie-that-truly-binds-grand-fortune-and-great-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/13\/the-tie-that-truly-binds-grand-fortune-and-great-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tie That Truly Binds Grand Fortune and Great Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The richest among us have always loved to claim they have more talent \u2014 more smarts \u2014 than the rest of us. They can do things the rest of us can\u2019t. They fully deserve, in other words, the grand fortunes they\u2019re so busily amassing. Those of us who worry about the inequality those grand fortunes create have never swallowed this deservedness claim. We\u2019ve spent massive amounts of our time demonstrating how grand fortunes reflect all sorts of dynamics \u2014 from exploiting workers and shortchanging consumers to monopolizing markets and paying off politicos \u2014 that have nothing to do with talent and brilliance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/13\/the-tie-that-truly-binds-grand-fortune-and-great-talent\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/13\/the-tie-that-truly-binds-grand-fortune-and-great-talent\/\">The Tie That Truly Binds Grand Fortune and Great Talent<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/13\/the-tie-that-truly-binds-grand-fortune-and-great-talent\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Sam Pizzigati.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The richest among us have always loved to claim they have more talent \u2014 more smarts \u2014 than the rest of us. They can do things the rest of us can\u2019t. They fully deserve, in other words, the grand fortunes they\u2019re so busily amassing. Those of us who worry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44003,42657,22,68292,228,1150,68293,45609,43091,266,27150,2399,42792,42603,68294,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210561,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210493\/revisions\/1210561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}