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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by headmelted on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:59PM (#21260747)
I'm not sure what's controversial here.

This is capitalism.

Get money put away and your whole family will accumulate wealth at (give or take) 8% per year (and thus stay rich), save for gross incompetence and catastrophically bad bets.

Short of replacing capitalism itself this will always be the case.

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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:15PM (#21260984)
Actually you could just remove the notion of "family" and it would go away too. If you don't raise your children and never know who they are, you can't give them any money.
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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by headmelted on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:29PM (#21261162)
This is objectively true but it broke my brain.
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