         Money can indeed solve certain problems (those that are connected to its lack), but families with plenty of money can also be quite troubled and confused and hurt. Money is such a vexing matter to so many of us in a world so sensitive to both its presence and absence that it can generate its own kind of difficulties for people who may seem to have everything, but who know full well what they don't have, or yearn to have more plentifully: affection, self-respect, membership in a community of neighbors or colleagues at work, those bonds that are priceless.
- Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis series from the foreword to The Legacy of Inherited Wealth |
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Inheritors and Work: The Search for Purpose
I N T R O D U C T I O N
Millions of people dream about winning the lottery and never having to work again. Yet inheritors of wealth win the lottery on the day they are born. Theirs is the freedom so many others can only dream of.
But is a lifetime free from the demands and constraints of work truly such a gift? Is it really the fulfillment of a dream? Some would argue that freedom from financial necessity is fulfillment, but this doesn't seem to be the case for most inheritors.
We would like to make a case for work - even for those who don't need more money. We have chosen a broad definition of work, including in it activities that are frequently left out of more traditional concepts of work. Learning is work, caring for children is work, community service is work, making art is work, and planting a garden is work.
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