One of my absolute pet peeves is JW parents willing most of their estate to the WTB&TS. Don't the idiots realize that families are a unit and wealth is built up over time by contributing to that unit what you have built up over your lifetime. It's passed down generation to generation to better the family. When a family has this contribution from its past, it makes it easier for them to continue the building for the next generation. Just look at the wealthier families in our country and you will see a lot of their success is because the previous generation helped them get a step up. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize this.
I'm going to shout this out to all you JWs and lurkers who give even one single dime to the WTB&TS: YOU ARE MAKING THEIR FAMILIES WEALTHY.....NOT THE SOCIETY! Sure, a portion may go for printing presses, and Kingdom Halls, and whatever else, but I can guarantee if you had a way to investigate it, you will find that the individual families involved in the upper leadership moguls, are not living out of cardboard boxes.
Edit: Sorry for the shout out, but this IS my pet peeve because I've seen families struggle to provide for their children's education, buy a better home, put some away for their future, while their stupid JW parents think they're earning extra points with Jehovah by willing their estate (no matter how meager) to an organization that would kick them to the corner in a heartbeat for a single transgression.
