{"id":342,"date":"2018-04-26T21:27:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T02:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2018-04-26T21:33:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T02:33:27","slug":"feeding-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/26\/feeding-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding the dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s human nature to accept gradually increasing levels of inequity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ljworld.com\/news\/2018\/apr\/25\/lawmakers-payments-gray-little-could-jeopardize-fu\/\">Former KU chancellor receiving $500K salary for transition consulting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are many, many people with ridiculous salaries that contribute little of real value. Coaches, athletes, entertainers, CEO&#8217;s. Does anyone really think they deserve so many times more than the average person? Aren&#8217;t there other things that money could be spent on that might help make the world a better place? Yet many will speak loudly that this inequity is justified.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, like this, yet another example hits a nerve. Still, we believe that we are powerless to change things. So we just keep feeding the dragon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZYNADOHhVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s human nature to accept gradually increasing levels of inequity. Former KU chancellor receiving $500K salary for transition consulting There are many, many people with ridiculous salaries that contribute little of real value. Coaches, athletes, entertainers, CEO&#8217;s. Does anyone really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/26\/feeding-the-dragon\/\">Continue reading <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":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}