To be fair, I'm not sure the person being referred to thought that this was "normal and expected" among her social circle, but merely that she expected it in her situation. As I mentioned in another comment, while I don't feel like my parents owe me an inheritance, just doing the arithmetic implies that it's very likely that I'll inherit something.

I do, however, agree that the level of inheritance expectation and the sheltered attitudes that come from having a trust fund (I was astounded to find out how common having a modest trust fund was in this social circle) are disturbingly widespread among people we know.

(Actually, there's one object in the house which blew my mind when I found out how valuable it was. Mostly because it basically wasn't valuable when they acquired it nearly 40 years ago (I think Mom took a class from him in community college or something), but then the artist became really famous in classical Asian art circles.)