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Capitalism is about private property and freedom. If parents want to provide generously to their children that's perfectly fine.

Equality of opportunity is equally as bad as equality of results. It denies people the ability to reach as high as they can and forcibly brings them down.

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Is that really worse than what we already have, where most people are denied the ability to reach as high as they could because of who they were born to? You can appreciate that many parents who are able to want to provide generously to their kids, so imagine a parent feeling the same but not being able to be generous. Passing on money you don't have is pretty hard, but passing on the way people looked down on you for your financial status is unfortunately easy to pass on, as are your wishes that you went to (or even had the money to) go to college, among other things. You know your child deserves so much and could do so much, if only they had the resources to achieve all they could

It is worse because you'd be taking away opportunities from some to give to others against their will. It's cheating.

By doing nothing you're allowing opportunities to be taken away from many kids against their will (bc their parents lack the money). That's cheating

You're not taking away anything because they never had them in the first place.

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