{"id":929585,"date":"2022-12-22T06:58:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=269052"},"modified":"2022-12-22T06:58:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:58:59","slug":"can-we-talk-sensibly-about-inequality-and-ignore-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/22\/can-we-talk-sensibly-about-inequality-and-ignore-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Talk Sensibly about Inequality and Ignore the Rich?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some conflicts we can see \u2014 and understand \u2014 rather easily. Their raw rhetoric will typically help us identify the opposing players and what they\u2019re fighting over. But sometimes the rhetoric never gets raw. The dominant players smother real differences with appeals to vague values. They paper over real conflicts and choices and leave the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/22\/can-we-talk-sensibly-about-inequality-and-ignore-the-rich\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/22\/can-we-talk-sensibly-about-inequality-and-ignore-the-rich\/\">Can We Talk Sensibly about Inequality and Ignore the Rich?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/22\/can-we-talk-sensibly-about-inequality-and-ignore-the-rich\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some conflicts we can see \u2014 and understand \u2014 rather easily. Their raw rhetoric will typically help us identify the opposing players and what they\u2019re fighting over. But sometimes the rhetoric never gets raw. The dominant players smother real differences&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929585"}],"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=929585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929588,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929585\/revisions\/929588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}