You are being sarcastic, but in reality, yes, many family businesses are absolutely multi-generational rent-seeking schemes that solely exist to extract capital

You are being sarcastic, but in reality, yes, many family businesses are absolutely multi-generational rent-seeking schemes that solely exist to extract capital from people. That said, your comparison to forced confiscation of retirement plans by the state or charity is very strange, because it's not as if on your brother's death the state would come in and takes every cent he's ever made as a producer of IP. In fact, the state literally does the opposite, and gives your brother's children and grandchildren the entire backing of both the civil and criminal justice systems. This is why we spent the 90's and 2000's sitting through VHS tapes telling us that unauthorized copying will be met with an FBI investigation, $250k in fines, and 5 years in prison.