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Elder wealth: If you retire at 67 or so, your “wealth” needs to last until you die. You might need a nursing home or to hire people to help out. Not many people who live to be 90 or more have that much $ left. When they die it gets divided up among their children. I got something from my parents but not that much because they had spent it to cover their costs.
Indeed: All my life I have lived frugally so that I would have a secure retirement (and not be totally dependent on an increasingly dubious Social Security.) Professor Moyn wants to seize that “extra” wealth in the name of fairness. But he’s far from the only one: I have known many leftists who unashamedly told me that my savings should be “redistributed” in the name of “fairness” to people like them who were making no effort to save as I did.