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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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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That makes sense. Pre-industrial Times, when patronage mattered more than personal resources for art, it would have been more common to skip levels. There are also special conditions like rap and basketball being level-skipping ways out of poverty for black families.
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