I think that all too often when western Christians, particularly in the US, read this parable they tend to gloss over the characteristics of the master and simply look at the slaves who doubled their talents to justify their own inner sense of greed.  To be honest, for a long time I was one of them.

When one truly reads the parable, paying attention to the language of the third slave and the confirmation by the master, it turns that interpretation completely upside down.  This, I believe, is more in line with what Jesus was teaching.  None of his parables affirm the status quo, so to think that this one would is a skewed viewpoint.