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GUILFORD â In 1986, when he was 26, Chuck Collins did something some might consider brash when he decided he did not want his share of the family fortune, amassed starting in 1883 in Chicago by his great grandfather, Oscar Meyer.
But Collins â who recently penned a book criticizing wealth inequity â had been tossing the idea around for several years before that. He even had the audacity to broach the subject at a wealth management forum in 1983, during which he was told he was âa naïve, foolish and selfish manâ to even consider depriving his heirs of the inherited wealth he had himself inherited.