[SketchySeaBeast]

How about all the non immediately monetary advantages? Neighbourhoods, schools, contacts, free time, travel, emotional support. All affect your market value as well. Did you feel safe while growing up? Did you live at home during college? That's not fair either and will have an effect on your earning. There's a ton of variables there, and you're trying to draw a hard line on a very fuzzy subject.

[kokokokoko]

Because it's an easy line to draw. Don't take the money. Problem solved. The other things you listed do not have such a simple solution.

[SketchySeaBeast]

So if my much-suffering parents leave me some money upon their deaths I shouldn't take it, and that in some way makes me equal to the kid who went to the ivy league school and had a job with a major firm due to father's contacts but took no money? Problem clearly not solved. I can see zero reasons, moral or otherwise, to not take my parents money.