Should inheritance be banished?

Idea came up in another thread. The logic being, if people had to earn their worth from society regardless of who their parents were, then people would cooperate together more and their greed would be more limited.

"then people would cooperate more and be less greedy"
you can't change human nature, and you can't change the fact that people's money rightfully belongs to them, the earners, not society or the state.

But we can manage that human nature, and the definition of "rightfully" is variable. I'm only posing the question as an abstract debate, not for people to get too worried about. I don't think it's happening any time soon

haha don't see it happening either plus the rich would just go to another country or use their powerful lawyers,accountants to come up with new schemes. So it's virtually impossible.

But we can manage that human nature,

Idea came up in another thread. The logic being, if people had to earn their worth from society regardless of who their parents were, then people would cooperate together more and their greed would be more limited.

So, if inheritance was fundamentally illegal, like written into the constitution or something, how would they "get round" it. In that system I think the government could confiscate any assets directly or indirectly linking a person to their benifactor. The benefactor would become the state, making everyone stakeholders in society. It would be like an anti-anarchy policy.

indoctrination?

no I meant that objectively - if two people voluntarily deal/contract with one another in the transfer of money/wealth, property or services/time, then that, due to that consent, is the only truly fair and legitimate manner of transference or attainment of those latter things. if I told you that we could say that rape can sometimes be subjectively good if it is ordered to occur by a state or a democratic (mob-majoritarian) society, would you think I was correct or would you think I was crazy? look at my first sentence again and tell me.

it's not illegal to take your assets and leave the country now is it?

We are already indoctrinated. The question is, what do we want to be indoctrinated by?

I'm not too sure there are ways other than consent which could really make for a fair society - if people make mistakes, and they lose property in their lives and become poor, or they do not work effectively enough to get property in the first place, I wouldn't say that their life was based on any kind of organised unfairness

What are we really indoctrinated by

No government in the UK would ever back this idea (especially not a conservative one) but I certainly agree with it in an abstracted principle. If money exists as an abstract symbol of your personal capital it should not be passed between people without an equivalent exchange of capital in the from of goods or services. Problem is there are a lot of questions that rise in terms of alternatives, if you collect 100% of inheritance and confiscate it as tax then there is little incentive for the rich to not just go on a spending spree or give their money away before they die. Also how do you handle inheritance of material assets, if I have a million pounds and spend it all on diamonds right before I die does my family inherit the diamonds? I'd suggest selling all assets on a public market and then using the money gained as tax but then what if its a sentimental item. In my diamonds example selling on a market would make sense but what happens when its someone's wedding ring or prized collection of biscuit tins they spent their life collecting.

TL;DR: I agree, but there are a lot more questions than answers.