You do list a bunch of unrelated things, but you have to admit that having kids is related to hard money.

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I don’t follow. What connection do you see between the two?

Generational wealth. A wise and successful person leaves wealth to their grandchildren.

No. A wise an successful person leaves wealth to *anyone* they deem should be a beneficiary. There is no requirement that it be a blood relation. It can be a friend or a friend’s child. It can be a donation to anonymous individuals. It can be an endowment to a charity dedicated to a cause, or university for scholarships.

You're looking at it backward. People with children want hard money to leave their descendants. It's linked.

No, you’re looking at it myopically.

Unless, do you think ONLY people with children/descendants want to support others??

Though I am child-free, I feel support people (as well as non-human animals) who will outlive me, most of whom I do not know, will not know, and who will never know me. That’s what philanthropy is all about. Hard money serves this purpose for me just as much as it does for someone who only wants to give to their blood relatives.

Every single nepo baby and trust fund kid I know that was afforded the vaunted “generational wealth” ended up a hot mess in life.