But Harris-Babou exhorts her viewers to see that the process of restoring old wood — discarded materials found for free in the country, refurbished, then sold for thousands of dollars in retail stores — tells a story of labor, value, and inheritance that is at the center of society's most enduring injustices.
In "Sex on Six Legs," the biologist Marlene Zuk argues that insects — because they are both unlike us and, in surprising ways, like us — provide excellent fodder for studying the relative value of inheritance versus environment, the evolution of personality, the definition of language and the downside of growing bigger brains.
Rich or poor, countries have rarely managed to clean up their tax "codes" -- the thousands of pages through which sales, income, property, value added, inheritance and many other taxes are imposed on all of us.
His financial head start taught him the value of inheritance and the importance of taking advantage of a pre-existing market, in this case, birthers and the rest of the far right who still cannot tolerate a black man as our President.
But the Conservatives clearly don't value all inheritances, for all their noise about the evils of inheritance tax, a tithe on extreme wealth that in practice afflicts barely anyone.
By contrast, the median value of inheritances received by those born before the baby boomers was $108,885, and for those born after the boomers, $22,167.
In a study conducted last fall, AARP found that by 2001, the median value of inheritances going to baby boomers was $47,000 in 2001 dollars.
It would also allow the estate tax rate to jump to 55 percent on the value of inheritances over $1 million per individual, $2 million per couple.
In 2001, the median value of inheritances received by baby boomers, most of whom are now in their 40's and 50's, was $47,909, according to AARP, which conducted the study.
Who knew, for instance, that the annual value of inheritances in France has tripled from less than 5% of GDP in the 1950s to about 15%, not all that far from the 19th-century peak of 25%?
