• blarth@thelemmy.club
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    They’re spending all of the money that might go to our inheritance on themselves, but mostly because the medical system has figured out how to extract all of their money from them when they are near death through hospice care, assisted living facilities, and other means.

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    I personally don’t like the idea of inheritance in general but first thought that came to my head when I read this - every time I hear about the “great wealth transfer” that’s supposed to happen, I think nah, it’s all going to go to long term care and into the pockets of the people who own those places.

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      My cousin’s neighbor got screwed by this. Thought he was inheriting the home et al - turns out the bank is coming in to take the home unless he can come up with a chunk of money he absolutely doesn’t have. Now he has to unexpectedly move.

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    People like you will do it for them. You think old people are fucking you over when it’s the billionaires. Meh.

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    21 hours ago

    The Me generation has already pulled the ladder so high, that most of Gen X never made it onto even the bottom rung.

    Their parents named them The Me Generation. They tried to stick that label on Gen X, not realizing that they didn’t have enough of us for us to ever be relevant.

    The Greediest Generation will be taught about, as the people who were so shortsighted they sold out themselves and their next 5 generations of offspring.

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    19 hours ago

    Climate change, although the younger generations aren’t doing much to help with that either.

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    they already did, decades ago. consistently voting with the republicans. like 1-2 generations ago, when they went with reagen, and then again with BUSH as the final act.

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    Sell all their homes to corporation in a reverse mortgage, so they get the cash now and the homes stay off the market for young people.

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        A lot of the cash will go on healthcare. But a bunch will go on trips in retirement and other stuff…of course no wealth transfer any more except for the uber wealthy.

        It’s a case of the young no longer having a large sun of money at once to buy a house while also taking housing off the market. This reduces supply and demand keeping prices somewhat affordable for corps but out of reach for people. Renting is the new serfdom.

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      I mean, young people can’t afford their houses, at some point something’s gotta give, or yeah they’ll sell them to corporations.

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      They’re GONNA die. They don’t get life extension tech. For one thing, they’re already too old for it to do much for them.

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        so… you envision one last boomer dying out and suddenly the sun rises? like who do you think is behind the mass fucking of the public? no one born after 1970?

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    My boomer relatives floated the idea of donating their estates to the mormon church upon their deaths, fucking their apostate kids out of any inheritance