At a certain level of wealth, people are so far removed from what “their” money does that the whole thing largely runs itself. This kind of operation could largely run itself, so would anything stop a person in control of it while they live from issuing commands that take effect long after their death? Are there any hard and fast controls on this?
Shouldn’t there be an ecological niche for a kind of business that accomplishes certain tasks for you after your own death? Delivering flowers to a loved one after 10 years, making sure certain documents are delivered, etc? Is this kind of thing in some way illegal?
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> Shouldn’t there be an ecological niche for a kind of business that accomplishes certain tasks for you after your own death?
That is called a “trust” and in the US they have a limit on duration of 21 years after the death of anyone living when the trust was created. Beyond that there are of course a bunch of legal details about what can and cannot be done, and how, because it is a long established legal instrument.
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