Wealth is mean-reverting along genetic lines. I.e if your removed ancestors were poor, but your immediate ancestors were rich, chances are you or your descendan

Wealth is mean-reverting along genetic lines. I.e if your removed ancestors were poor, but your immediate ancestors were rich, chances are you or your descendants will revert to being poor. Together with available data conditioned on factors like geography and ethnic background, by far the most likely hypothesis is that expected wealth is mediated by factors like intelligence and time preference, which are strongly genetically heritable.