Inheritance is how some people randomly get the weapon they can choose to use for (2).
I don't have a problem with inheritance per se; I see it as a subset of donation, and I believe people should be free to donate their money.
It's just that in a bad system, it will be a multiplier of the badness. If you have a system where evil people can get their money by force/fraud, and where they can use the money to do illegal stuff or to buy lobbists and change laws in ways that allow them to use more force/fraud legally... in such system inheritance gives you people who benefit from crimes of their ancestors, who in their childhood get extreme power over other people without having to do anything productive ever, etc.
Can't an inheritance be used as seed money for some wonderful world-enhacing entrepeneurship?
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