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This is an excerpt from a Forbes article with an interview at the end. Interesting read and listen. Ask a successful entrepreneur for some thoughts about economic egalitarianism and you're likely to hear an unhesitating denunciation. Themes such as equal opportunity vs. equal outcomes, lack of incentives, unfairness, dependency, etc. will come tumbling out of the typical wealthy business leader's mouth. But shift the topic to inheritance and, all of a sudden, egalitarianism is just dandy. Wealthy people default to equal inheritance for everyone. Four kids? The math is easy: .25 times the body of the estate. Say the oldest daughter is a saint who calls every week, carries on the faith and ethical tradition of the parents, raised terrific grandchildren, and lives modestly, but the youngest daughter is a hellion who is deeply in debt, hasn't talked to mom or dad in years, gives to no charities and has never settled down. That's pretty much the situation which financial

I've been reading in Peter lately. There is little comparison to reading a scripture passage in its entirety. The context is easier understood that way. These verses are however lifted out of the passage as I read them this morning. But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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