So no merit, effort or capability-based gains; instead a straight title, prestige, wealth and inheritance gain through DNA, over which no offspring has any control.
michaeljx•22m ago
Like the good nepotistic society we are
zdragnar•15m ago
I'm struggling to understand what the desirable alternative is here. Children shouldn't be recognized by their patients? Or only lower class parents should have the burden of sharing their income with their children?
madaxe_again•11m ago
All children should be gestated in womb-bladders in state hatcheries, and raised to maturity by the state. Knowing or wanting to know your parents should be considered a deviancy, a perversion.
Oh wait that’s Brave New World. Or The Naked Sun, depending on your preferred flavour of SF nightmare.
alberto-m•5m ago
Or Plato's Republic, if one prefers older books.
skrebbel•12m ago
Wealth gain? How?
bell-cot•3m ago
Are you advocating for all children being anonymized and raised in orphanages? Or a 100% inheritance tax? Or just expressing disappointment at your own relative lack of wealthy & famous recent ancestors?
xz18r•15m ago
I'm Belgian, this has been public knowledge since the guy was born. At least it was dealt with a lot more amicably than the other case (Delphine Boël being the child of King (then Prince) Albert II), which was decades of bad lying and denial.
ninjagoo•23m ago
michaeljx•22m ago
zdragnar•15m ago
madaxe_again•11m ago
Oh wait that’s Brave New World. Or The Naked Sun, depending on your preferred flavour of SF nightmare.
alberto-m•5m ago
skrebbel•12m ago
bell-cot•3m ago