Originally Posted by ultramarina
Uh huh. What's your point? I'll inherit money when my parents pass away, presuming they don't end up needing nursing home care that eats it all up. They didn't give me money when I was 25, though, because they expected me to be figuring out how to make it myself.

My point is that the intergenerational wealth transfer maintains advantages of the wealthier people.

You, personally, presumably aren't trying to build and maintain significant amounts of *family* wealth over generations, so it's not relevant to you.

Other families are doing this, which means that they are being provided with subsidies that will increase the durability and success of the *family* in the future.

It's an individualist vs. collectivist issue.