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Intergenerational wealth

Wealth accumulated by one generation and passed to the next compounds advantages in ways that break the meritocratic story we tell ourselves, since a child born to wealth can fail repeatedly and still land safely while a talented poor child has no margin for error. Understanding this mechanism—not as moral judgment but as fact—is essential to reading both personal financial outcomes and broader patterns of inequality.

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