[arebop]

> How does receiving the assets of your parents after their death affect social mobility

The article doesn't only address inheriting your parents' assets. It is also about people who inherit directly from grandparents and great grandparents. And actually it's even about people who grow up in families that have been wealthy for hundreds of years and remain so today and seem likely to remain so for hundreds of years more.

> undeserved

You seem to focus on whether it's fair that some people have unearned power, but another sense in which some people are concerned about undeserved inheritance is that there's no reason to think that those who win the Ovarian Lottery are particularly able to allocate society's resources. Those who have earned a fortune have demonstrated some ability to put resources to economically good effect, so there's a purely selfish & pragmatic reason to celebrate earned wealth that does not exist for unearned wealth.