The Inheritance Problem

Why Inheritance Is A Problem

It would seem appropriate just having lumbered out of a cave that the master of the cave should leave the grinding stone and other cave artifacts to whomever he chooses. This is not a problem until you try to apply that cave life style to a modern civilization consisting of millions of people. The more people who live in civilization the more work has to be done maintaining them. But even more important is the more work that gets done. What functions in the cave environment simply doesn't hold water when millions of people are involved and millions of people will be involved or else nothing will ever get done.

Whether we are aware of it or not nature has her way of "keeping the economic ball rolling". How she does this is by infliction. If a strain or erroneous impulse exists in the fabric of human economic life it, like poorly written computer code, creates leaks in various places. (Erroneous impulses are patterns in social life which do not synchronize with reality.) These leaks, when considering humans, are dissidents. The more erroneous the social impulses become the more leaks originate. Nature is telling humanity something: she is saying "this system doesn't work".

So how does society acquire these erroneous impulses? This is where inheritance weaves it's decadent web. Much of it has to do with childhood conditioning. The reader is referred to Paul Olsen's book 'Mother's and Sons" which explains much of this conditioning pattern. But to step right over Paul Olsen's book much of what mothers teach their children has to do with the philosophy they entertain. These are of course only one side of the coin. Most importantly, although the previous are important factors as well, is that nobody can predict a child's eventual course in life. Leaving valuable social tools, resources, behind to inept or incapable people can literally cripple social progress by creating a deficiency of tools, resources where they would be more advantageous to social progress. If society was confounded with a mere 5, 10, 20, 100 or even 10,000 such cases it might not be such a significant problem area, although, I would call it a problem area just the same. Unfortunately, it appears that humans did in fact just crawl out of the cave and as a consequence of this what we are looking at in modern society is not a mere 10,000 cases of maladjusted resource distribution, but rather a system who's main philosophy, a separatist approach to social living, fully endorses this maladjustment in resource distribution, or inheritance. So much so that in the current day not a mere 10,000 cases of inheritors exist, but rather inheritance is the de facto rule of the day and hundreds of millions of cases exist many of whom are very wealthy social units, or families, which misappropriates not a large quantity of existing economic resources but nearly all economic resources. This creates a Shut Down & Locked Out scenario because the people holding the resources have no real vision with which to maintain them so they resort to locking the entire society down in an effort to keep their advantages, which they intend to pass on to their children, yet again, in an insane spiral of social maladjustment.

Up and above the aforementioned there is the fact that inheritors tend to be insolent and over indulgent, frequently with less capabilities than non inheritors as a result of issues discussed in Paul Olsen's book, above. For more on the details of this insolence see Petty Capitalist Children. Consequently, they not only use up all available resources to no end as they lack vision, but their petulant jealousy blinds them to everything except those who possess real qualification and they position themselves in ways such as serve to inhibit those who possess real qualification. One can not begin to imagine the drawback to overall social progress to not only have such an inordinately maladjusted system of resource distribution which results immediately in a reduction of qualified citizens but to follow it up with a vehement hatred and jealousy towards those few citizens for no more reason than that social evolution requires their vision and has created them.

The entire problem can be more readily pictured with a simple analogy: If we, society, were trying to build something and you had a broken tool with your name on it, would you force all of humanity to build with your broken tool simply because it bears your name? In modern civilization this is precisely what is happening. All of humanity is being forced to build with broken and crippled tools (relative to the higher type citizens that are being displaced the average inheritor is a cripple) and what is resulting is near complete chaos, simply because those tools bear the names of some has-beens.

The modern world is afflicted with a disease of immeasurable proportion and the disease is inheritance. Nearly every area of modern society is maladjusted for lack of real leadership. In other words: almost every impulse in the modern world economic cycle is an erroneous impulse, or contains erroneous attributes, and there are leaks everyplace which are being covered up rather than correcting the problems creating the leaks which is inheritance. 

Nature is crying her eyes out for all the gifted children which are being buried in poverty and illiteracy because they lack sufficient resources to survive while the inheritors blindly meander as they have no vision.

See also: UCOM's Solution To The Inheritance Problem.