It seems not, as you wish to constantly restart the race under the theory that some are winning too much.
Who said anything about restarting a race?
On the contrary, there is no particular distinction between monetary inheritance and other forms of inheritance (such as what you seem to call "familial").
So says cpwill
One is not any less natural than the other
OK, I suppose I will have to spell it out for you. Do understand this, first you have to understand how money (and other non-perishable valuables such as silver and gold; for the purpose of this argument, we will just refer to them all as money) creates inflated wealth/power differentials. Without money, it would not be possible for individuals to hoard the kind of wealth that we see hoarded today. Indeed, people could only hoard no more than what they could make use of. There are many advantages to using money that make it more practical than simply trading perishable goods. However, the inflated wealth/power that occurs between the citizens as a result of the use of money is a negative side effect that needs to be accounted for.
In the long run, without accounting for this side effect, only a few families would own all the wealth (if citizens did not revolt by that time) and everyone else would essentially become indentured servants, exploited and any wealth they would accrue would be at the mercy of those that hold the wealth. When compared to other organisms that compete with each other, there would be no comparable situation in nature. This is because in nature, without money, families rise and fall according to each generations natural skills. In nature, money is not needed for competition (and it does not exist anyway) and skill (i.e. extent to which each individual is able to adapt to its environment) determines an organisms wealth/power.
In the US, we use the principles of evolution in economics and in social policy. That is we use capitalism. Capitalism allows competition, which is a good thing as it keeps products and services competitive. It also has a natural system of rewards and consequences that helps guide human behavior, keeping it productive and competitive. We all should understand these concepts by now, so I will not explain this further.
As mentioned, problems arise when we use money; we've already covered how it created artificial/inflated wealth differentials. Without keeping our capitalistic system (that uses money; which we've already discovered has its negative side effects) in check, it also deviates from the natural evolutionary process that capitalism is modeled after. Why you may ask? Because while it works for competition within one generation, it begins to fail as the next generations take over. This is due to inherited monetary wealth. In essence, it doesn't allow for the individual's natural endowments to be tested in the capitalistic system. Instead, it places the individuals of each new generation at artificial (unnatural) starting points. It does not allow for the individual's natural skills and the non-monetary based (natural) parenting that may modify those skills (lets call these collectively
natural inheritances) to be tested and given a value. Instead, artificial or unnatural (the terms artificial and unnatural are used interchangeably) inheritances place individuals at different levels depending on the values of their artificial inheritance, disallowing the individuals natural inheritances to be testing and given a value in the most pure form possible. So to summarize in simple terms, capitalism without correction for artificial wealth/power accumulation and without correcting for artificial inheritances for new generations, fails to perform its intended function.
Thus, new generations to not have the opportunity to experience their full value due to artificial inheritances. Does this help cpwill?
the desire to start over and remake the human race anew is a failed fantasy of bloody ideologies precisely because it so poorly correlates to the natural order of things.
Who said anything about starting and remaking the human race anew? Some who do not understand the concepts may see it that way, but its not intending to do that at all. Instead, its intent is to simply allow our market and each new generation to benefit from both individual realization of natural value and collective realization of the results of a purer capitalistic market. Purer meaning that it would be more analogous to what we observe in species competition in nature.
We are discussing (ultimately) the passing on of the fruits of production. Whether done so in the form of M1, a farm, education, personal attention from the parent as a child during time not devoted to labor it is all that which we (naturally) pass on to our children to give them the greatest advantage possible.
Of course we want to pass on what we've learned to our children. We want to pass on our genes to our children. We want to pass on good parenting to our children and so on. These non-monetary inheritances are all natural inheritances. What we don't want to do is give our children an artificial inheritance that does not allow them to experience their full value. Not to mention that just as we like to see who wins from a race so long as they all start at the same starting line, we also want to see how well our new generations do without starting them on different starting lines. We want the to succeed because of their own skill and because of our dutiful parenting and passing on of values etc. If we did anything else (i.e. if we gave some artificial inheritances to some and not others) they would feel like they cheated and deep in our hearts, we would know that we helped them cheat. Not to mention how unfair it must feel to those who are on the receiving end of this cheating. Yes cpwill, we want to "pass on to our children to give them the greatest advantage possible", but we want to do it without cheating; we want to do it in a pure fashion.
This post is not to pass judgement on people who have engaged in such cheating, but to point out what it really is. Those who feel like they are being judged should not, because all you have to do is agree that the system needs to be fixed in the way I have been describing and we can make the whole debacle go away. If you feel like you have cheated deep inside, don't beat yourself up. Remember, there are many things our forefathers did not completely grasp and there are many things that were done that were wrong by our forefathers. But we should not pay for the sins of our fathers; instead, we should fix the system today, as we know there are problems. Fear, anger, shame and defensiveness are all poisonous emotions and we should act quickly to notice that they exist within us and push them out. Nothing hurts society more than these things (except perhaps unchecked greed, lol).