Quora Answer: Is It Better to Become Wealthy or be Born Wealthy?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “Is it better to become wealthy or the be born wealthy?”

It is better to earn that wealth than be born into it.  Being born into wealth spoils you.  There is no achievement; it is the lottery of birth.  People who are born into wealth do not understand its value, and the value of people.  They are likely to squander that wealth, and see little immediate value in “lesser” people.  Building your own wealth is an actual achievement.  That journey is replete with lessons, and people who worked at this understand the value of what they have achieved.  They are also likely to be better people because they have been on the ground and worked their way up.