When you die, your accumulated material goods are hurled in a dumpster or divided up like sentimental spoils to collect dust in storage until your scavengers also die and their kids discard your mementos. A living legacy is all that remains: The ripples from your relationships.
You’re correct. But that only matters within the context of the living legacy. You want to hand ten million cash to a child raised up to be honorable and moral, or another Paris Hilton?