The Challenge of Jesus's Words

Team Soc,
I was thinking about the Global Reading assignment and was also listening to your responses (So fun! So thoughtful!) and it drove me to the Gospels. How does Jesus respond to this? Is everything equitable when Jesus walked the earth? How does he respond to the inequity?
Luke 12 came to mind right away. Read it. Sometimes we think of Jesus's words being so soft and squishy, but they are far from that here. In fact, they are hard and difficult.
Based on this Gospel reading, what do you think Jesus would say to us in relationship to the Global Village?