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		jjeaff on Oct 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? Seems like the greater feat would be keeping your family size small over 650 years. Most any level of wealth will start to fade if you have to split it amongst 1,000 heirs.

bombcar on Oct 23, 2021 [–]

Hence the effective disinheriting of second or third sons of noble houses (the old saying was something like heir, army, priest).

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