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> if you don't work hard and generate wealth, your next generation of family won't enjoy the life that you had

This seems like a very upper-middle class mentality. The vast majority of people don't ever pass on wealth. Hell, go back 30 years and getting an inheritance was something the ultra-wealthy only did.

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the vast majority of people don't, but I would say close to 100% of parents wish they could.

What parent doesn't want their kids to be at least equal to, if not better off then they were?

Every parent wants this, but how do you define "better off"? I won't be handing a large pile of cash to my children, mostly because to me, them being "better off" means that they are able to build the lives they want. When I look at families where the parents gave their kids a large amount of wealth, it seems rare that the kids have been better off for it.

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