Why fruits of your labor should be recycled

Don’t hold on to anything. You came into this world with nothing and you will leave it with nothing……sure you can keep your ashes in orbit until singularity happens again probably if you keep hold of enough money and make necessary arrangements in advance. Those ashes don’t help anyone and leave a carbon footprint as well! What you can leave for posterity is a copy of your genes and that doesn’t cost you much including kitting them out to succeed in life. Beyond that, use whatever you have to help your fellow travellers in this journey. Gates and Buffet are doing that and a whole set of folks who they could convince to do the same are doing that too. Life is commerce in essence. But the spoils of commerce, once you have managed to usurp as much as you can – through crook or fluke, which are both random, should be spent to help those who got the short end of the stick in their own random walks.

If you keep holding on to those spoils, one of the following is bound to happen:
1) The beneficiaries of your will would first get pissed off at why they did not get a lot more than you gave them and then forget you within 12 months
2) Your half genetic copies will not have the motivation to succeed since they can wallow in the luxuries you have given them without so much as moving their backs - and a chunk of the spoils will end up with government as inheritance tax
3) If you do not have half copies of your genes, the fruits of your labor will end up with the government

Isn't it better to just spend whatever's left on your fellow beings before Mr. Grim Reaper comes looking for you?

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