>It takes a certain combination of work/knowledge/luck to profit from anything in life.

Plenty of people 'profiting' on the wealth of their parents, grandparents, etc. when they themselves have never worked a day in their life and don't have much knowledge of anything.

Inherited wealth is an obvious contradiction to the meritocracy that so many people believe we live within today.

If my response seemed to support the idea of meritocracy as a fact it was unintended. Obviously I missed "inheritance" or family-estate from the triad.