Raising Children Worthy of Empires

Johann Kurtz has an excellent article about the unnatural and despicable practice of very wealthy men giving away their wealth to various charities and leaving their own children with nothing.

The central contention of the essay was that the root cause of the twisted practice of giving away one’s children’s inheritance is a failure of parenting: the failure to raise children worthy of stewarding great wealth.

How do we raise our children worthy of stewarding great wealth? One of Kurtz’s six points of counsel:

Impress upon your children your family’s identity, mission, responsibilities (and, at times, adversaries);