{"id":2810,"date":"2007-10-29T00:30:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/must-everything-change-13.html"},"modified":"2007-10-29T00:30:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T00:30:22","slug":"must-everything-change-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/must-everything-change-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Must Everything Change? 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 7 of Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change<\/a>\"\"<\/em>concerns the “equity” system, the system’s ability to balance resources among its people. The question that animates part 7 is this: Why are the poor poor?
\nThe question for today and week: Assuming global and local inequity, what is the Christian response to inequities? Seems easy to answer — is it easy to answer?
\nThe equity system attempts to regulate the prosperity system. And this equity system has four major dysfunctions:
\n1. It is programmed by the dominant framing story.
\n2. It is rigged to work for the insiders.
\n3. It was created for the nation-state in the industrial age.
\n4. It should not be expected that the equity system will change the system by which the rich insiders prosper.
\nThere is a rising resentment — hate and fear — by the poor against the world’s rich.
\nHere are some figures Brian trots out:
\n1. The richest 1% own almost 50% of the total wealth; the richest 5% owns 70%.
\n2. In 2000 the G8 countries contributed 3% of the GDP; during that time the poor countries contributed back 6.3% of their GDP to the G8 countries to pay for debts. (The poor countries fell further behind.)
\n3. 6 million children die per year of starvation; that’s a holocaust every year.
\n4. The average Anglo is worth 5.5 times the average African American in the USA.
\n5. CEOs income to the average worker: In 1960 it was 12 to 1; today it is 301 to 1.
\nIn the hearts of many poor the operative disposition is revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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