I think we need to shift from seeing inheritance as something we benefit from. Every positive comes with a negative, nothing is created nothing is destroyed.

I think we need to shift from seeing inheritance as something we benefit from. Every positive comes with a negative, nothing is created nothing is destroyed. Chemistry found it to be so in the physical domain, confucians in the spiritual domain, and accountants in the wealth domain. I won't deny that you CAN ignore the responsibilities that come from inheriting wealth, yes you can sell your father's company and life mission, but you destroy your legacy, and your children will destroy yours. Wealth comes with its own set of problems if taken. Sure we may argue about which problems are worst, but must we? Each is born into a place, each is born into a class. And the principle of balance shall bring equity in the form of responsibility (to paraphrase Spiderman's uncle). I just feel it's a more appropriate response to tell your parent "I will take care of it" rather than "thank you" and selling it to go on trips and snort cocaine. I'm not saying I'm free of sin and don't indulge in the pleasures of hedon, be it in a coffee (brought to me by a less attractive waiter of a distinct race from other commensals serving a publicly traded company, and made with beans grown and brought under a veil I can assume hides even more injustices) or in the wasting of my intellectual and physical talents on the pursuit and satisfaction of short term audiovisual novelty, but I will do so in guilt damnit!