No, this story demonstrates that an "excessive" inheritance is a burden to a certain set of heirs. It tells us nothing about the effect of "excessive" inheritances on other heirs.
Let's not take sample sizes of one and use them to justify assertions about large groups, shall we?
I know so many kids toiling away thinking that "there's only the ladder", that the idea that there's happiness outside of money is some sort of opiate to weed out the less driven. ask people who went to prep schools man, ask rich people themselves. money doesn't make people happy.
Let's not take sample sizes of one and use them to justify assertions about large groups, shall we?