Should inheritance be minimized to create an equal outset for everyone?

This position holds that inherited wealth should be substantially curtailed, by taxation or by limits on bequests, because advantages passed between generations decide where people start before anyone has done anything to earn or forfeit them.

This position holds that inheritance should not be curtailed, on the grounds that providing for a family is part of what earning is for, and that limiting bequests shifts advantage into channels that are harder to see rather than removing it.