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The research behind Unseizable, grouped by the question you are probably asking.
Where do I start?
- Generational wealth without money — the practical version: what to pass on when there is little money to leave.
- What can't be seized — the test this site uses, and the three things that pass it.
Is there evidence this works?
- The Kresy case study — Polish families forced from their homes became the most educated group in Poland within three generations.
- The Hungarian surname study — communism took the nobility's land and titles, and their descendants stayed ahead anyway.
- The uprootedness hypothesis — why losing property turns families towards education, seen in Poland, Germany, Finland and Iceland.
- Social mobility — what the term means and how it is measured.
What counts as wealth, if not money?
- Measuring wealth — five conversations that measure wealth in time you control.
How do children pick it up?
- Possibility models — children aim at the adult lives they have seen up close.
- Role models and decision-making — most daily choices run on habits copied from the people nearby.
- Mimetic desire — we borrow what we want from other people, and children borrow from whoever is closest.
- Personal warmth and the vouch — why some people get recommended, and the network a child inherits.
What should we let into the house?
- Memetic hygiene — choosing the ideas and people a household lives with.
- The parasitic meme test — four tests for whether an idea is serving you or feeding on you.