For most of us there is a disconnect between what we perceive as valuable to society and what is valuable in monetary terms. And yes, if someone can gain enormo

For most of us there is a disconnect between what we perceive as valuable to society and what is valuable in monetary terms. And yes, if someone can gain enormous sums of money by a stroke of dumb luck (in this case having made a video that went viral because it was just at the right time) than that tends to rub people who strife for fairness in life the wrong way. About inherited wealth: once you grok the ideological arguments for heavily taxing inheritances, and then also realize that above a certain threshold people can just spend a minute fraction of that wealth to ensure that those rules don't apply to them and their offspring, you might feel the same way depending on your idealogical outlook. The idea that taxation is unfair or even theft is very pervasive in society though, and it is such a sucesful memetic device that people who stand to lose the most by it are often staunch supporters of tax evasion. The idea being that just as with the lottery, one day they too might hit it big time, and then they too would benefit! Statistically, this is unlikely to the point of being negligible, but it is easier on the mind than understanding the situation for what it really is.