@gregeganSF
Me: Working on a TTRPG setting satirising real world intergenerational wealth transfer problems through the assumption that a couple thousand years ago the crop of aristocrats decided undeath was the solution to "You can't take it with you when you go."
https://fantasyheartbreak.blogspot.com/2021/12/setting-tomb-world.html

#TTRPG #Undead #Economics #WealthDisparity #IntergenerationalWealth

Let's talk about learning about institutions from board games....

https://youtu.be/dKV8yXqoKiM

#politics #beauofthefifthcolumn #intergenerationalwealth

That document explained how preferential tax rates on long term capital gains, and stepped-up basis for inherited assets, contributed to wealth inequality.

These related to the two main provisions of the draft legislation targeting intergenerational wealth hoarding.

The draft legislation did not include a major expansion to a tax loophole for the rich
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/tax-policy/revenue-proposals
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#inequality #SteppedUpBasis #taxes #CapitalGains #IntergenerationalWealth

https://archive.org/details/dc-wills

Index to District of Columbia Wills, 1801-1920 by Dorothy S. Provine

Topics
#DC, #WashingtonDC, #districtofcolombia, #unitedstatesofamerika, #slaveowners, #blackchattelslavery, #wills, #will, #willandtestament, #lastwillandtestament, #propertyownership, #propertytransfers, #wealth, #intergenerationalwealth, #upperclasses

from the introduction: "This book consists of an alphabetical name listing of more than 22,700 wills filed in the District of Colombia Orphans' Court (Probate Court) during the period 1801-1920. [...] The vast bulk of the wills, of course, were created by the local middle and upper class property owners to ensure that the distribution of their possessions was carried out according to their wishes."