Did you have fun wrapping your head around the closing XD
I was pretty happy that my eldest thought we had done most things "right" and I think in a lot of cases (at least where parents wer being conscientious about things) there's a lot that will continue to be relevant (even if the kids are absolutely adamant that this isn't the case at the time) even if it a lot is wrong one way or another, and we just have to acknowledge that our parents did the best they could with what they knew at the time and the parents now are doing likewise.
If the interest in the family business isn't there then it isn't there. It's really hard to work at a soul sucking job that you absolutely loathe no matter how good the money is unless you're doing it with an end in sight (only for 5 years then I'll be rich and can move on to something else). Currently my youngest thinks he would do exactly that for the money and I told him that a lot of people fully believe that they absolutely would for the money until they're actually doing it.
I feel like the people that have to blaze their own trail might have an ego thing going on though.
Yes!
I think while there is the interest thing for sure, I reckon a lot of people in those conditions have been raised in a way where they aren't part of the business, or have it easy enough that they don't feel the challenge of building it. It is a type of "spoiling" perhaps.
Very few can work hard for any significant time for money alone.