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Inherited wealth and its complications

Inherited wealth is advantage received without corresponding effort — which is not in itself wrong, but is in itself consequential. The recipient faces a particular challenge: to use what was given in a way that justifies having received it, without pretending they earned it or being disabled by the knowledge that they did not. The complications are both practical and moral, and few who inherit significant wealth navigate them without difficulty.

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Dignity as Non-TransferableEconomic Virtue and Wealth StewardshipInherited Obligation, Not Just InheritanceIntergenerational Economic JusticeMoney's Relation to Reason and DignityReason as Inheritance AuditorReason as Liberation from Inherited AssumptionsThe Poverty of Unearned AdvantageThe Privilege-Blindness ProblemThe Virtue of Productive Purpose