This is something I saw a lot of with certain immigrant families. The incoming generation would generally be quite poor, but there was some other property they

This is something I saw a lot of with certain immigrant families. The incoming generation would generally be quite poor, but there was some other property they had that made a big difference: they were educated, stable, capable, loving, etc. It's as if you transported a well-off family somewhere else while only taking all their money away but leaving everything else. They would live modestly but then the first generation would end up quite well off.