I would probably look at it another way - there's a reason why "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" typically rings true. Children will emulate what you teach them and what you demonstrate to them.
Generosity will beget generosity. Hard work will beget hard work, etc. Even if they disagree with your choices. It's the "curse" we inflict on our children, if you will. (now you have to actually demonstrate it to them and there's always exceptions)
What I can definitely tell you is that we shouldn't fear giving our children opportunities that we did not have. While I agree with you the brutality of life can produce the greatest successes, it comes at a high cost of a very low likelihood. Survivorship bias causes us to miss all the failures - even people who made very similar choices you did. Without getting into the religious side since you didn't go there, I think there's a responsibility we have to the next generation to get them setup if we ended up on the positive side of life's ledger of opportunities and execution.
Does this mean they deserve an inheritance? No. I consider my inheritance from my father paid in full already through what' he's already paid for and what he's taught me.
Generosity will beget generosity. Hard work will beget hard work, etc. Even if they disagree with your choices. It's the "curse" we inflict on our children, if you will. (now you have to actually demonstrate it to them and there's always exceptions)
What I can definitely tell you is that we shouldn't fear giving our children opportunities that we did not have. While I agree with you the brutality of life can produce the greatest successes, it comes at a high cost of a very low likelihood. Survivorship bias causes us to miss all the failures - even people who made very similar choices you did. Without getting into the religious side since you didn't go there, I think there's a responsibility we have to the next generation to get them setup if we ended up on the positive side of life's ledger of opportunities and execution.
Does this mean they deserve an inheritance? No. I consider my inheritance from my father paid in full already through what' he's already paid for and what he's taught me.