3 ms·
To abolish the class divide you must abolish inheritance of wealth. When people die, their assets should become redistributed across the population. Good luck
by newnewpdro 8y ago
To abolish the class divide you must abolish inheritance of wealth. When people die, their assets should become redistributed across the population.
Good luck implementing it; the wealthy would just find ways to put their assets in shell companies or trusts where their descendants may access them.
Practical issues aside, I do believe inheritance is a major barrier of progress towards equality.
- djrogers 8y agoLet’s set aside the fact that 80% of US millionaires are first generation, which somewhat subverts your underlying assumptions, and address your idea on its merits. By doing this, you would remove the single greatest biological imperative humans have to excel - to leave your offspring better off than you.
- rhacker 8y agoLet's also realize that to abolish inheritance would mean abolishing inheritance for the other 99%. Many people in the 99% have saved their home or otherwise kept their dignity because of inheritance. It's not just a 1% concept.
- rbanffy 8y ago> to leave your offspring better off than you. You can still do that. What the article proposes is that you shouldn't confuse that with leaving your offspring better off than everyone else. Life is not a zero-sum game.
- rbanffy 8y agoEven if we can't solve the problem completely (assuming, that it, it's really a problem we want to solve completely), there is a fair amount of motivation to reduce the perceived unfairness of outcomes.