thesageofmainstreet What you say is true,
but you need to look at the alternatives.
On your side, we see the Russian and French revolutions,
where hereditary power becomes so obscene, that the
consequences are as appalling as they are inevitable.
But those revolutions themselves simply spawn more of the
same albeit in another guise.
And yet here we watch the West with its blatant nepotism
make all those same errors. Are we to suggest that all forms
of hereditary process are bad? If so, those who now have
license will descend like vultures upon every death-bed.
Having fought off the heirs, having risked death,
are they now going to SHARE in the spoils?
Almost never.
When society is a hotbed of hereditary corruption,
who is going to voluntarily give it up?
Almost nobody.
The best solution seems to be that there is simply a limit
on what is hereditary. But then token sale to the heir
will take place before death in most cases, so who benefits?
Almost nobody.
Are governments better at using wealth for the collective good
than private individuals?
But the governments are themselves just a cover-up for those
private individuals anyway!
Social Justice is like trying to catch sunlight in your hand.
Because the legal decisions as to what is allowed in hereditary
terms is itself just another nepotistic process,
so all you are doing is promoting one thief over another.