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What else given by parents ought to be neutralized or otherwise taken away? Work ethic? Polite manners? Good looks? Family connections? Education? Computer skil
by gbacon 8y ago
What else given by parents ought to be neutralized or otherwise taken away? Work ethic? Polite manners? Good looks? Family connections? Education? Computer skills? Cooking skills? Healthy lifestyle? Dominant presence, at least for sons? Social skills? Athletic ability?
If it’s only money that ought to be “evened out,” what makes it special vis-à-vis these other valuable areas? What is the underlying system of ethics that justifies this intervention?
The Millionaire Next Door devotes an entire chapter to Economic Outpatient Care, that is, continually paying their adult kids’ bills and otherwise bailing them out. For all their skill at building and growing businesses, American millionaires do not seem to be any good at passing these skills on to their children. What that means is through the natural course of things, millionaires’ kids tend to squander their gifted status without outside help from egalitarians.
- Latteland 8y agoThe difference is that inheriting huge amounts of money leads to a group of people that have power from their money (if they have a lot), but they aren't invested or aligned with society getting better. They are against the success of regular people., who can believe that their success is aligned with using their power to change society to their own benefit. This doesn't always happen of course, but these rich people can believe irrational things, they can screw up society. You can be this way even if self made, but I think if you were self made the things that worked for you on the way up help you be connected to the real world.