The aspiration that you leave a house for your children - aside from being a reality for only certain
privileged sectors of the population - can also be seen as less «essential» if we are to move away from a situation of astronomical house prices which even most well off young professionals can not afford, and towards a more realistic housing market, in which safe, secure, good quality social housing played a key role.
In fact, gifted children, gifted people, occur in all
sectors of the
population, and occur more often in the larger middle and lower class
sectors, than the supposedly
privileged upper class described in The Bell Curve.