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ozgrakkurttoday at 4:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

Maybe wealth should be reset every time? There shouldn't be inheritence at all?


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quantummagictoday at 4:12 PM

It's a lovely idea, but that system will have to be enforced by a power structure... which will always tend to grant itself special privileges. And even before such corruption, without inherited wealth, there will still be entrenched institutions that control resources, and have a continuity of leadership, that will always be looking out for themselves and their in-group. It's just natural.

pixl97today at 4:16 PM

Define wealth in an exact manner.

Because rich people have both the power and motivation to define it in a manner in which they still win. Wealth can be education. Wealth can be contacts. Wealth can be properties. Wealth can be businesses. Wealth can be in other countries.