We all know that people with high-income parents have an advantage over people with low-income parents. But what I just realized is that there’s *also* a practical difference between people who could ever inherit or borrow money from a grandparent or cousin, and people who can’t.
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Solid bourgeois middle-class professionals will be supportive of entrepreneurship but not happy about special-snowflakey life paths.
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The whole “families get richer generation by generation until someone squanders the money or gets expropriated” model depends on living in a world where wealth accumulation is possible, though. 19th century novels take it as given; for most human history it wouldn’t be like that.
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