🧬 Inheritance as a Political Act
💬 This post is a follow-up to "🧭 “Steuern steuern”: On the Humanist Function of Tax".
Inheritance is where private accumulation meets public consequence.
In a post-growth, workshop-based society, a 100% inheritance tax on intellectual property and the means of production isn’t confiscation — it’s the completion of a cycle. It honors the social nature of innovation by returning tools and knowledge to the commons, where they can seed new forms of shared prosperity.
This includes not only patents, copyrights, and industrial tools, but also wealth-generating assets like shares, real estate, and corporate equity. Anything that extracts rent from others’ labor or limits access to productive capacity must be returned to the public — not as punishment, but as rebalancing.
We don’t need to take anyone’s palaces or paintings. What matters is liberating what generates future value — so that the next generation of thinkers and doers inherits possibility, not monopoly.
This is not about punishment. It’s about closure with integrity — the stewardship of wealth not as hoarded capital, but as legacy infrastructure.
This Post is build upon in 🌍 Commons, Not Conglomerates: Variable Taxation as a Guide Toward Communal Stewardship
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