The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can\'t take it with you.
As Friedman\'s enlightening soc.
Law and custom allow people many ways to pass on their property.
But the Social impact of Inheritance is more than a matter of money; it is also a matter of what money buys and brings about.
In the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the Dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century.
The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large.
The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can\'t take it with you