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Re:Why Inequality Matters by kamaal on Thursday October 16, 2014 @12:50PM (#8465916)
>>Letting inheritors consume or allocate capital disproportionately simply based on the lottery of birth is not a smart or fair way to allocate resources.

Unfair to whom? And why is that unfair?

Is it fair to a kid born to a rich parent that they must simply be punished because they were born to rich parents?

A lot of people work hard all their lives to give a better life to their children. Having children is a huge investment in time, emotionally and other things which can never quantified by merely calling it a lottery. Parents not just contribute their genes but so many other things.

There fore they also tend to invest in their future not just through things like education but through other means as well.

That's the whole point in investments anyway, you build on top of what you make in the past. If I can't keep what I have earned for my own kids, why should I even make a effort to earn it at the first place?

Re:Why Inequality Matters by muuh-gnu on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:05PM (#8467718)
Arguing with communists is a waste of time. Predator species always existed and will always exist. The whole "inequality" debate is beating around the bush. It is the classical grasshopper-ant situation. They simply want your stuff.
Re:Why Inequality Matters by logicchains on Thursday October 16, 2014 @07:15PM (#8468459)
Look on the bright side: humans have proved incredibly ingenious in devising elaborate justifications for taking other humans' stuff. At least it demonstrates creativity.