You don't deserve 600,000,000 dollars.

[krispos42]

35. Well, there is a difference between the two

First, is that people that inherent large sums of money are generally the relatives of the people that acquired the money. The people that acquired the money are generally greedy psychopaths and/or egomaniacs. You have to be to be able to get that much money either in business, Wall Street, or entertainment (which includes pro sports).

So if you're a relative of a person who makes that kind of money and lives that sort of stratospheric social elite lifestyle, then you're likely to have also acquired the same personality traits, and will go with them when you inherent the money.

Whereas if the money just falls into your lap out of the blue, it will be falling into the hands of a person that was probably not raised by greedy psychopaths in a culture of social elitism and over-achievement. The last thing the Koch brothers and other greedy psychopaths want is half-a-billion dollars in the hands of a socially-conscious do-gooder who can avoid the trap of falling into an expensive and draining high-class social lifestyle and would instead work to duplicate Koch political effectiveness from a liberal perspective.



Second is that it's gambling, so none of the winners "deserve" it in the first place. It's not even a matter of an intelligent gamble, of calculated risk of the kind that many businesspeople take. It's bolt-from-the-blue random chance. And I think it's good that our society can be shaken up a little by regular people coming into vast sums of money without have to become business psychopaths or entertainment egomaniacs. It gives us a chance to get things done that the "regular" rich people will not do.

It's probably too much money in the sense that 30, $20 million jackpots would be better than giving one person $600 million, but that is the nature of a national lottery system.