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Such a society would not fly. Imagine being a parent and unable to be able to give your kids an advantage. It would devolve into pure chaos.
by xvector 4y ago
Such a society would not fly. Imagine being a parent and unable to be able to give your kids an advantage. It would devolve into pure chaos.
- kennywinker 4y agoYou just described the situation of millions of parents in the US today. Why does your kid need a financial advantage? If society provided an equal footing for every child, the advantages you could provide to them would be love, advice inspiration, and bettering society so that there was more for them. You say “that’ll never fly”, but I say if we’re going to imagine a better world why not imagine it radically better not just incrementally better.
- robertlagrant 4y agoIt's not radically better. Giving people who at the age of 50 have enough money to live on no way of passing anything on will disincentivise a giant number of things you take for granted.
- kennywinker 4y agoLike what? I'm interested in disincentivizing the accumulation of more wealth than you can spend in a lifetime, and the continued sequestering of that wealth into family lines. We abolished the monarchy for a reason - we don't want to be ruled by people who were born into their position.
- robertlagrant 4y agoThere is a big difference between wealth and monarchy. You aren't ruled by people with money, although one of them might offer you a job.
- kennywinker 4y agoThey literally shape the world around us. Money = speech, so they speak louder than us. It may not be quite so restrictive as a lord-surf relationship, but “giving you a job” is a power dynamic that edges towards feudal when the choice is homelessness and starvation or work.
- Kbelicius 4y agoIt is a sad world in which the only thing one could give his children is money/property.
- HelloMcFly 4y agoThis is the situation for a huge - possibly majority - of parents.