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Sure but if we're going to live in the land of inheritance then we need to toss the ideas that "anybody can make it" or "I earned this." >I don't want to live
by frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
Sure but if we're going to live in the land of inheritance then we need to toss the ideas that "anybody can make it" or "I earned this."
>I don't want to live in a world where "I farm this land, just as my father, his father, and his father for 5 generations has done." is not possible.
Why not? A man works hard to support himself but allowing four generations of free-riders seems like a pretty bad idea. It strikes me as a sort of neo-monarchism. In the past we had royalty blessed by god and passed through blood and now we have the economic elite blessed by capital and passed through blood.
- sokoloff 9y agoI don't know how much time you've spent on family farms, but from what I've seen, I'd not describe them as "free-riders" on the land or on past generations.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoThen they can earn the farm the same way their father or grandfather did. If they can't earn it why should they have it? That's what meritocracy means.