Reply #105: Maybe I'd feel differently if I'd bred (it was on the to-do list, honestly) [View All]

[Warpy]

but I can't imagine wanting to saddle offspring with an empire. I think my own parents would likely have given a lot to charity and left me with about what I have now, enough to live on but not enough to join the jet set. My mother came from serious money, wiped out by the Depression, and certainly knew what happened to a lot of those kids and it wasn't pretty, not in the 1920s and not now.

Had I gotten what I have now when I was far younger, I'd still have worked for a living, in other words, and found some meaning in life beyond utter boredom punctuated by meaningless "charity" functions at which the wealthy see are are seen.

Warren Buffett also realizes this stuff and most of his fortune will be disbursed to various charities on his death, leaving his offspring enough to live very modestly on but certainly leaving them with a need to work if they want to live better.