> why should a small minority of kids get a huge extra unearned boost? This is what gives incentive. You do your best, next generation of your genes lives bett

> why should a small minority of kids get a huge extra unearned boost? This is what gives incentive. You do your best, next generation of your genes lives better. If you muddy that connection too much, you got 2 problems on your hands. Some leachers will try to freeride. And some people will stop earlier than they code since they don't see incentive to work more for little gain for their direct descendants. IMO USSR was a great case study for this. Building wealth was very limited, especially in allowed ways. Thus many people just stopped caring. Do as little as you can to pass by. Drink your days aways. The state will take care of your and your kids basic needs anyway. If you work your ass off - there will be very little change to you and your kids. Unless everybody works their asses off. But turns out in such cases mass apathy wins. And society crumbles. For the record, I do support free education. And it must be as high quality as possible. You don't want to waste talent because it was born in a poor family. But there needs to be plenty of incentive for that talent to do their best. And inheritance-heavy wealth structure doesn't ensure that either.