I don't know what they did for a living but as long as you're not in politics I'm pretty sure you did generate some value to earn that amount of money, no?
Even if they got most of their wealth through asset inflation, they still had the foresight to put their purchasing power into assets, I don't think thats leaching that's just wealth preservation.
Having enough wealth that you don't need to look to your family or the state for help I think is ethically better than leaching off a 3rd party
I have trouble seeing how a person not providing value for decades ( regardless of what they did before) is an ethical, sustainable structure. Its people benefitting from seignorage at the expense of future generations. If everyone magically produced enough 'value' to retire at 50, and live for 30 years...who keeps them alive? Its the young people buying the money from them one way or another, right? And if the young don't have the money, debt is created to do it, whether thats public debt or holding assets its creating a bag holder before they're even born.
