It is wrong to think that occupying positions of power is necessarily wrong. I think it's clear from today's Gospel that's not what Jesus meant by being humble rather than being exalted.
Jesus says the Pharisees and the scribes have taken their places on the chair of Moses but taking the chair by itself is not the problem. The problem is that they do not practice what they preach and they use the law to lay burdens on the Jews.
Jesus teaches us the proper attitude to positions: that those who are greatest must be everyone else's servants.
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