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>It takes a certain combination of work/knowledge/luck to profit from anything in life. Plenty of people 'profiting' on the wealth of their parents, grandparen
by wildrhythms 4y ago
>It takes a certain combination of work/knowledge/luck to profit from anything in life.
Plenty of people 'profiting' on the wealth of their parents, grandparents, etc. when they themselves have never worked a day in their life and don't have much knowledge of anything.
Inherited wealth is an obvious contradiction to the meritocracy that so many people believe we live within today.
- 627467 4y agoIf my response seemed to support the idea of meritocracy as a fact it was unintended. Obviously I missed "inheritance" or family-estate from the triad.