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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
The difference, to me, is that the inheritors you mention have to keep up the labor of their predecessors if they want to reap that fruit.
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Nope.
If you inherit a huge fortune you can just live your entire life on the interest, without ever lifting a finger.
How much labor is Paris Hilton doing?
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So from societies vantage point it seems strange that we would grant some people that are fully capable of being productive members of society a life in perpetual unproductivitiness.
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You've just defined the idle rich.
They made money the old-fashioned way, they inherited it.