For mega-rich heirs, the anxieties that drive ‘Succession’ are all too real

“They are constantly wondering if people like them for who they are at their core or for the trappings of wealth that adorn their lives,” he said in an email, commenting on wealth’s remarkable ability to isolate a person from those around them. “They feel guilty for having so much of what the world idolizes and while at the same time feeling so flawed, inadequate and unhappy.” “One especially tricky element to inheriting wealth is how others might relate to us because of our wealth, which can be like a...