Originally Posted by Oriphiel

It's kind of funny that the bootstrap types are always the first to defend inheritances. I guess they don't have the same faith in their children that they have in the poor to do shit for themselves.

Also, considering that no endeavors happen in a vacuum, and that those fortunes couldn't have been made without the society and economy that the lower classes slave to maintain, it's hard to look at any amount of money as purely belonging to one person. When someone hoards wealth to such insane degrees that it further lessens the already limited pool of money in our economy, maybe society has the right to level the playing field, even if only in extreme circumstances.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.