Re: SV: Knight and Public Domain

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> Absolutely! Bottom line case, we are talking about depriving people of the 
> ability to feed and care for their children (or designated heirs); sooner 
> is more egregious than later, relative to the confiscation of property, 
> whether before or after death.

So it seems what we're really talking about is social policy: is it a good 
thing that large fortunes can be inherited, or should there be an 
inheritance tax that puts a cap on things, puts everyone on a more or less 
equal footing (within an order of magnitude or perhaps two), and rewards 
_becoming_ rich (a process which tends to create jobs and produce increasing 
tax revenue) over _being_ rich? Bill Gates famously favors the latter 
position: he has said he wants his heirs to be well-off but not so rich they 
don't need to do anything anymore...

I think we'll have to take this offlist...