Meaning of the Parable of the Talents

I’m wondering what people think of this interpretation of sermon of the [Parable of the Fearful Investor](http://docplayer.net/36377175-As-well-as-for-every-other-good-idea-in-this-sermon-louisville-westminster-john-knox-press-1994-152.html) . I’ll provide this one example, but I have others if you'd like. The interpretation I usually see elsewhere, including with this forum, is that it is about investing to get something back, using money as a metaphor for your gifts. This interpretation gets to be a problem, and most preachers will tell you this, when the 3rd servant says the master is “hard” and reaped where didn’t sow. The parable doesn’t refute that and it has the master saying he should have taken interest on the money, which would be against Jewish law, so I just can’t map the master on to God. As the link suggests, “Read the parable like someone living on a lake in Nicaragua or one of the “little ones” who followed Jesus around…”. Then, the lesson comes from the 3rd servant. He doesn’t play the capitalist’s game of exploitation and profit for profit’s sake. Yes, he’s cast out, but it’s cast away from the world that Jesus rejects in the rest of the gospels.