A perfect essay to summarize all of modernity’s false premises. No, you cannot share in your ancestor’s traditions, no you cannot cultivate a family heritage, no, you cannot hand things down to your children- that’s taking away from the common good! This nominalism and nihilism has torn the world apart.
It's also a question of race. White Christians kick out their kids at 18 and tell them to go work for a living, then leave them no inheritance as they boom away their fortune. Compare this attitude to Jewish, Indian, or Asian attitudes where older generations support their offspring through college and then thereafter. This is a significant part why these other groups have made such inroads against white Christians. The latter have a stupid attitude and they need to get with the program, quickly, if they want their children to be competitive in the modern era. There is nothing noble about being a globohomo workpiggie with no job stability and no home ownership, it just sucks.
Best essay I’ve read in a while. Also one thing you didn’t mention that proves that these people are be terrible parents, is that the financial managerial system they have blind faith in won’t last forever and is showing signs of breaking. American debt is really out of control and debt payments have out paced American defense payments. So the stable modern workaholic environment these parents grew up in will not last and the skills their kids were trained in to work in this modern system will also lose its value when historical eras eventually change. They truly are abandoning their children. And this is terrible because elites who don’t care about their children don’t care about the world they’ll leave behind. And when powerful people don’t care about the world they’ll leave behind and it’s all about THEIR profits that they must make for themselves, then you get unstable parasitic elites willing to screw everyone else over. And what’s worse is that when elites don’t leave anything behind for their child they’re perpetuating this cycle of parasitic behavior among the most educated where no one cares about what will be left for future generations.
Think of how much better the world would be if we got rid of institutionalized charity and went back to the old Christian system of helping our immediate neighbor. This post hates on Adam Smith, but he was right when he said -- I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
This reminds me of a thought I’ve been having for some time now. I encourage young people like me to entrench themselves in business with family. Once you do and operate a business with family, responsibility becomes necessary. You are required to be just with family members because the survival of the family unit now depends on good ethical relationship practices. At least for those of us who aren’t psychopaths...
This mindset also absolves one of personal responsibility and disconnects from the emotional reality that children need a loving, regenerative Earth to live on, not a rocket to Mars funded by the "virtue" of space travel.
Disinheriting is a feature, not a bug, of the world system. “The righteous leave an inheritance to their children’s children,” but the unrighteousness do not. It may be that most of them (i.e., celebrities et al.) cannot leave an inheritance because the wealth they have doesn’t really belong to them. They “took the ticket” from the god of this world and get to play rich and famous for a season. But only for a season. Then, the the piper must be paid. This essay is a good reminder to resist their counterexample and instead build intergenerational foundations of material wealth and spiritual righteousness.
We currently are GMO factory-farm human swine that are harvested for many things, including the intoxicating loosh.
We send our children into the world at 5 to be raised by strangers. We allow our prized young adults to go off the viper dens like New York and Hollywood as sheep to the slaughter. We ourselves spend 90% of our daily interactions with strangers. This is the meaningless life of swine and goy.
There will arise an army of Saint George, a legion of vampire slayers that will reclaim our humanity and sovereignty through fearless slaying and exorcism of our landscapes. This will be profound, yet impermanent as this is repeating cycle on Dojo Earth.
Very good, yes! These straw men of fame and fortune are cynically retarding a natural moral instinct in us; I say that it is basically true that every man should work, and even that practically every man should engage in physical or laborsome work, but not that all men should depend upon labour for their support. Any elite or nobility worth its name will instill the stern necessity and the excellence of work in the life of man into its children, and though they may "labour" less we expect their lives to entail more work rather than less, but work of a more privileged stamp. It probably does kings a power of good to do a day or two of work in a garden or a workshop once in a while; to maintain his relation to simple matters and prove regularly that he does not lack the simple capability of lesser men, but to throw your nobility back into the grind of necessity is only to blunt your best tools. Shame that our own elite are already mangled beyond repair, and probably not by the coarseness of necessity; but yours is a healthful message for the elite we hope to cultivate.
Common denominator: all Anglos (well, some mischlings and dagoes but you get the point). Mediaeval manorialism and ‘absolute nuclear family’ takes another huge L as Boomers bear Anglo TRADITION into 21st century...
It took me a day to comment because i wanted to get this right. My Grandfather was an exceptional man, and he had three estates, and a booming business. However, like all post war Boomers, he believed in the myth of absolute meritocracy. He not only did not leave his Company to his sons, but he didn't sucessfully educate them into how to be financially sucessful. He had three children. One is dead, the other is a reclusive hippie, and the other is a neurotic woman. One day he confessed to my father that all of his three children were 'unfit'. My farher replied that it was his fault and his fault alone.
Very well. He died some 10 years ago. Before he died he sold his company to a globalist conglomeration, and of the three estates he had, the sons and daughters sold them all. All of his land and assets were sold because not one of his three children knew a thing about managing a pettite empire. I often question this move, and the answer i get is that those estates would be too costly to mantain and that in selling them the family would become "wealthier". Where did the money go? Stocks.
You can already see where i'm going with this. The man made a fortune, didnt teach his offspring how to manage it, sold the legacy to the globalists and no one has any idea what to do with the money from the physical assets they sold.
It infuriates me beyond belief, as if anyone could just meritocratically arrive at his level of wealth (he really did believe that).
So while this story is not about cutting offspring from the wealth entirely, it is about a tragedy of a legacy undone.
Thank you for the post. I could say much more but it would turn into a short book.
I've mixed feelings on this. I can't fault "Let 'em work, or luck out, for a livin', just like I done did!" too much. Also they earned, or lucked, their money, their choice.
On the other hand building and future offspring maintaining the big house atop the hill, or dads looking across the vast ranch, pea farm or vineyard saying, "Son, someday this will all by yours!" aren't bad things.
On another hand it's hard to build one's children's future on quicksand; property taxes, law's lack'es, zoning groanings, inflation by design, government not benign, byzantine rules one can't define...
Maybe the best inheritances are portable and not necessarily reportable. "Son, when I die be sure you break off the concrete stucco and take those five 7 x 3 5/8 x 1 3/4 inch loose bricks in the NE corner of the house foundation, put then in the back of your pickup before you leave. Be careful carrying them though each one weights 400 troy ounces or 27.4 pounds."
The Glory that was Rome was built in large part by wealthy noble families who saw the need to expend much of their wealth improving the civic life of their city. This expression of civic virtue put much needed coin back into the economy of Rome while simultaneously creating a city of tremendous beauty, filled with practical demonstrations of engineering and architecture--skills that were a critical part of the 'conquest package' Rome used to coopt/conquer the Mediterranean world. It enriched the lives of the citizens, who looked upon their leaders with affection and respect for having provided employment, economic opportunity, and technical advancement. The nobiles of Rome kept wealth enough to keep their family lines intact while providing this service.
I would that our 'nobiles' used their wealth for similarly enriching goals.
Leaving wealth to charity is the way to transfer wealth to children while avoiding the estate taxes. If Mick left his wealth to children, it would go mostly to the government. The exemption of $26M per couple gets cut to $13M in 2025, and will likely get cut further in coming years. So he is simply doing proper estate planning while generating RP that he is a "good guy" and to signal to the taxman - don't bother. His children will be appointed to the board of the charities and likely paid for those positions, etc. This is why all billionaires end up running "non-profits".
My father is quite wealthy, certainly upper-middle class anyway as he's the top of his field and wanting to retire but effectively having money thrown at him given there is nobody to replace him. This most certainty speaks to the competence crisis but that's another topic.
I never made a particular effort to pursue this field because I never really desired to. I grew up with wealth and thus never idealized it to the point of wanting to spend so much of my life and time pursuing it. My "passions" have always been things that cannot realistically translate to a career. Instead I'm pursuing a pretty relaxed lower-middle class career (teaching) that would give me more mobility. Whether this is the right decision, I'm not sure but it's a bit too late to change now. I guess my plan is to find a comfortable and not very time-consuming job so I can focus on building a family and intellectual pursuits outside of my job.
I believe my "dream job" has always been to be a "gentlemen polymath" though I've obviously only recently developed the vocabulary to say so. I say with humility that I've been blessed with a high level of intelligence and creativity but cursed with practically zero "drive" or work ethic. I've been working on developing the latter more lately but I'm still a little confused about where I should be directing these gifts.
My father is a good man and is comparatively generous, paying for my living expenses, education and even offering to help me with housing in the future but he's also made it clear that he wants to pursue the boomer retirement of spending his fortunes on gimmicks and vacations, not making an effort to leave me with much of a fortune. I think it's rather arrogant for me to claim to "deserve" anything but it still upsets me somewhat because I honestly believe I am more suited and could do a lot more in pursuing a modern aristocratic lifestyle, as it were, not to pursue vacuous hedonism but to build an estate and help develop the recently flourishing Catholic community I'm already heavily involved in.
No matter what happens I have faith that I can pursue a meaningful and happy life but in terms of grander ambitions I don't think I have the drive to pursue the career grind but I think I could certainty do a lot in managing and developing already existing wealth if that makes any sense.
I'm genuinely confused about what I should do in this scenario, I've been raised in a secular, liberal family, only recently discovering the world of faith and tradition so I'm lost for wisdom.
A perfect essay to summarize all of modernity’s false premises. No, you cannot share in your ancestor’s traditions, no you cannot cultivate a family heritage, no, you cannot hand things down to your children- that’s taking away from the common good! This nominalism and nihilism has torn the world apart.
It's also a question of race. White Christians kick out their kids at 18 and tell them to go work for a living, then leave them no inheritance as they boom away their fortune. Compare this attitude to Jewish, Indian, or Asian attitudes where older generations support their offspring through college and then thereafter. This is a significant part why these other groups have made such inroads against white Christians. The latter have a stupid attitude and they need to get with the program, quickly, if they want their children to be competitive in the modern era. There is nothing noble about being a globohomo workpiggie with no job stability and no home ownership, it just sucks.
Best essay I’ve read in a while. Also one thing you didn’t mention that proves that these people are be terrible parents, is that the financial managerial system they have blind faith in won’t last forever and is showing signs of breaking. American debt is really out of control and debt payments have out paced American defense payments. So the stable modern workaholic environment these parents grew up in will not last and the skills their kids were trained in to work in this modern system will also lose its value when historical eras eventually change. They truly are abandoning their children. And this is terrible because elites who don’t care about their children don’t care about the world they’ll leave behind. And when powerful people don’t care about the world they’ll leave behind and it’s all about THEIR profits that they must make for themselves, then you get unstable parasitic elites willing to screw everyone else over. And what’s worse is that when elites don’t leave anything behind for their child they’re perpetuating this cycle of parasitic behavior among the most educated where no one cares about what will be left for future generations.
Think of how much better the world would be if we got rid of institutionalized charity and went back to the old Christian system of helping our immediate neighbor. This post hates on Adam Smith, but he was right when he said -- I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
This reminds me of a thought I’ve been having for some time now. I encourage young people like me to entrench themselves in business with family. Once you do and operate a business with family, responsibility becomes necessary. You are required to be just with family members because the survival of the family unit now depends on good ethical relationship practices. At least for those of us who aren’t psychopaths...
This mindset also absolves one of personal responsibility and disconnects from the emotional reality that children need a loving, regenerative Earth to live on, not a rocket to Mars funded by the "virtue" of space travel.
Disinheriting is a feature, not a bug, of the world system. “The righteous leave an inheritance to their children’s children,” but the unrighteousness do not. It may be that most of them (i.e., celebrities et al.) cannot leave an inheritance because the wealth they have doesn’t really belong to them. They “took the ticket” from the god of this world and get to play rich and famous for a season. But only for a season. Then, the the piper must be paid. This essay is a good reminder to resist their counterexample and instead build intergenerational foundations of material wealth and spiritual righteousness.
We currently are GMO factory-farm human swine that are harvested for many things, including the intoxicating loosh.
We send our children into the world at 5 to be raised by strangers. We allow our prized young adults to go off the viper dens like New York and Hollywood as sheep to the slaughter. We ourselves spend 90% of our daily interactions with strangers. This is the meaningless life of swine and goy.
There will arise an army of Saint George, a legion of vampire slayers that will reclaim our humanity and sovereignty through fearless slaying and exorcism of our landscapes. This will be profound, yet impermanent as this is repeating cycle on Dojo Earth.
Very good, yes! These straw men of fame and fortune are cynically retarding a natural moral instinct in us; I say that it is basically true that every man should work, and even that practically every man should engage in physical or laborsome work, but not that all men should depend upon labour for their support. Any elite or nobility worth its name will instill the stern necessity and the excellence of work in the life of man into its children, and though they may "labour" less we expect their lives to entail more work rather than less, but work of a more privileged stamp. It probably does kings a power of good to do a day or two of work in a garden or a workshop once in a while; to maintain his relation to simple matters and prove regularly that he does not lack the simple capability of lesser men, but to throw your nobility back into the grind of necessity is only to blunt your best tools. Shame that our own elite are already mangled beyond repair, and probably not by the coarseness of necessity; but yours is a healthful message for the elite we hope to cultivate.
Yes indeed
Common denominator: all Anglos (well, some mischlings and dagoes but you get the point). Mediaeval manorialism and ‘absolute nuclear family’ takes another huge L as Boomers bear Anglo TRADITION into 21st century...
I was going to say that each of the people you listed are rabid communists, but that speaks for itself.
It took me a day to comment because i wanted to get this right. My Grandfather was an exceptional man, and he had three estates, and a booming business. However, like all post war Boomers, he believed in the myth of absolute meritocracy. He not only did not leave his Company to his sons, but he didn't sucessfully educate them into how to be financially sucessful. He had three children. One is dead, the other is a reclusive hippie, and the other is a neurotic woman. One day he confessed to my father that all of his three children were 'unfit'. My farher replied that it was his fault and his fault alone.
Very well. He died some 10 years ago. Before he died he sold his company to a globalist conglomeration, and of the three estates he had, the sons and daughters sold them all. All of his land and assets were sold because not one of his three children knew a thing about managing a pettite empire. I often question this move, and the answer i get is that those estates would be too costly to mantain and that in selling them the family would become "wealthier". Where did the money go? Stocks.
You can already see where i'm going with this. The man made a fortune, didnt teach his offspring how to manage it, sold the legacy to the globalists and no one has any idea what to do with the money from the physical assets they sold.
It infuriates me beyond belief, as if anyone could just meritocratically arrive at his level of wealth (he really did believe that).
So while this story is not about cutting offspring from the wealth entirely, it is about a tragedy of a legacy undone.
Thank you for the post. I could say much more but it would turn into a short book.
I've mixed feelings on this. I can't fault "Let 'em work, or luck out, for a livin', just like I done did!" too much. Also they earned, or lucked, their money, their choice.
On the other hand building and future offspring maintaining the big house atop the hill, or dads looking across the vast ranch, pea farm or vineyard saying, "Son, someday this will all by yours!" aren't bad things.
On another hand it's hard to build one's children's future on quicksand; property taxes, law's lack'es, zoning groanings, inflation by design, government not benign, byzantine rules one can't define...
Maybe the best inheritances are portable and not necessarily reportable. "Son, when I die be sure you break off the concrete stucco and take those five 7 x 3 5/8 x 1 3/4 inch loose bricks in the NE corner of the house foundation, put then in the back of your pickup before you leave. Be careful carrying them though each one weights 400 troy ounces or 27.4 pounds."
The Glory that was Rome was built in large part by wealthy noble families who saw the need to expend much of their wealth improving the civic life of their city. This expression of civic virtue put much needed coin back into the economy of Rome while simultaneously creating a city of tremendous beauty, filled with practical demonstrations of engineering and architecture--skills that were a critical part of the 'conquest package' Rome used to coopt/conquer the Mediterranean world. It enriched the lives of the citizens, who looked upon their leaders with affection and respect for having provided employment, economic opportunity, and technical advancement. The nobiles of Rome kept wealth enough to keep their family lines intact while providing this service.
I would that our 'nobiles' used their wealth for similarly enriching goals.
Leaving wealth to charity is the way to transfer wealth to children while avoiding the estate taxes. If Mick left his wealth to children, it would go mostly to the government. The exemption of $26M per couple gets cut to $13M in 2025, and will likely get cut further in coming years. So he is simply doing proper estate planning while generating RP that he is a "good guy" and to signal to the taxman - don't bother. His children will be appointed to the board of the charities and likely paid for those positions, etc. This is why all billionaires end up running "non-profits".
My father is quite wealthy, certainly upper-middle class anyway as he's the top of his field and wanting to retire but effectively having money thrown at him given there is nobody to replace him. This most certainty speaks to the competence crisis but that's another topic.
I never made a particular effort to pursue this field because I never really desired to. I grew up with wealth and thus never idealized it to the point of wanting to spend so much of my life and time pursuing it. My "passions" have always been things that cannot realistically translate to a career. Instead I'm pursuing a pretty relaxed lower-middle class career (teaching) that would give me more mobility. Whether this is the right decision, I'm not sure but it's a bit too late to change now. I guess my plan is to find a comfortable and not very time-consuming job so I can focus on building a family and intellectual pursuits outside of my job.
I believe my "dream job" has always been to be a "gentlemen polymath" though I've obviously only recently developed the vocabulary to say so. I say with humility that I've been blessed with a high level of intelligence and creativity but cursed with practically zero "drive" or work ethic. I've been working on developing the latter more lately but I'm still a little confused about where I should be directing these gifts.
My father is a good man and is comparatively generous, paying for my living expenses, education and even offering to help me with housing in the future but he's also made it clear that he wants to pursue the boomer retirement of spending his fortunes on gimmicks and vacations, not making an effort to leave me with much of a fortune. I think it's rather arrogant for me to claim to "deserve" anything but it still upsets me somewhat because I honestly believe I am more suited and could do a lot more in pursuing a modern aristocratic lifestyle, as it were, not to pursue vacuous hedonism but to build an estate and help develop the recently flourishing Catholic community I'm already heavily involved in.
No matter what happens I have faith that I can pursue a meaningful and happy life but in terms of grander ambitions I don't think I have the drive to pursue the career grind but I think I could certainty do a lot in managing and developing already existing wealth if that makes any sense.
I'm genuinely confused about what I should do in this scenario, I've been raised in a secular, liberal family, only recently discovering the world of faith and tradition so I'm lost for wisdom.