Worse, that wealth accumulation will also lead to cultural stagnation: just like "science advances one funeral at a time", it's a harsh reality that culture als

Worse, that wealth accumulation will also lead to cultural stagnation: just like "science advances one funeral at a time", it's a harsh reality that culture also advances one funeral at a time. Older generations try to take in new ideas - about homosexuality, racial equality, universal human rights, whatever else you can think of - and raise their children with those ideas in place too. And most often, those children find out later that the older generation didn't really believe in what they were saying, at least not to the extent of being able to overcome their own childhood programming. But because this new generation was raised with these new ideas, they're actually able to internalize them and progress society further. Having older people with stagnant ideas and larger and larger accumulated wealth and power, would be a disastrous headwind against social progress.