Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf]
by xwdv on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:45AM
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"Making a name for yourself" is overrated. No one really gives a fuck. And you can still make a name for yourself with any amount of resources anyway, probably even easier to do when you already start with a lot of wealth.
Literally the whole premise on which the plot of Inception rests was to convince the child progeny of wealth to forgo it so as to prove that he could make a name for himself on his own merit and not by riding his father's coattails.
There's a very big difference between leaving a child to fend for himself (so to speak) and attempting to help a child develop his own sense of agency, including restricting access to a smaller-than-naturally-limited set of resources.