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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
So let's say you make fine furniture and sell it. You get paid money for the furniture, you save it up, you pass the money on to your family after you die. But you can't actively provide for your family after you die, because you can't go on making furniture after you're dead. (Unless you're, y'know, a zombie or something.)
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If I start up a furniture-making
business, my familiy can continue to benefit from that indefinitely after I die. Royalies are very like share ownership in many ways - both are "future income for past work".