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Lucky for me my parents were both "I didn't save anything for retirement, my kids will take care of me when I'm older", so I don't have to suffer through this.

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[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 57 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

I want my parents to enjoy the money they worked their entire life for. I believe work is meant to live, and not the contrary where you live to work. I would 10000x rather my parents enjoy the effort they put for their money instead of dying of exhaustion without being able to use their money

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Posting this as infuriating seems grossly entitled. Many of us in these younger generations won't have excess to give to the next generation, why should we feel that is owed to us?

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

You may be right, but at the same time, you getting an inheritance makes it a lot easier for your kids to get one too some day.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So much this. In my country my parents generation could afford buying a house on two middle class incomes when they were end of 20s early 30s. In my generation that is only possible with generational wealth.

I will never be able to own a home because the cost of a down payment goes up with the market, while my saved money's value stays constant (goes down with inflation). It is literally impossible for me to save it fast enough, even if I saved $1000, which is half of what I pay in rent, per month.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

My grandpa wants to go to space in his lifetime, but doesn't want to spend everything he's been saving for my us. I'm like...dude. You worked your ass off all this time. Go to fucking space. I think it'd be badass.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Sure and that's fine, but then we need to stop as a society assuming that generational wealth is a thing, and that parents will help their children. Parents do not help with down payments like they used to, or with other major life events, and so we need to assume everyone is starting from zero

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

How can we be reaching this conclusion, with all the accumulated wealth in the world? How can we be seriously believing everybody should start at zero? I can't believe what I'm reading here. Generational wealth is absolutely a thing, we inherit everything from the past. As a species, we inherit the wealth of the previous generation. Where are we imagining it goes? Given that it exists, why are we not entitled to benefit from it? There is so much wealth in the global economy, the issue is of distribution.

[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 9 points 8 hours ago

What on earth are you talking about? Generational wealth is not a binary thing. There are people rich enough to pass their fortune to their kids and then there are ones who can't. That's how it has always been and that's how it's always going to be.

[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Well, that really depends on the society. I don’t live in one that makes such assumptions. It feels a little bit entitled to assume something like that, but that could also just be cultural differences between developed and non-developed countries. The former have social security and safety nets, rendering an inheritance less important and much less prominent. Feels like the only inheritance worth even thinking about is if you have millions in excess of what you need for living, and in developed countries that is very much less prominent than in developing countries

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 7 hours ago

The big caveat to this is if it is a lot of money. If it more than a few million it should be passed down and someone can live off of interest and some good investments.

I know a guy who technically doesn't have to work at all because his family has been passing down a huge amount of money though the generations. I guess his great great grandfather struck it rich and now everyone is set. How the fortune is maintained is though legal stuff tied to the money in the form of wills. Basically it prohibits crazy spending and sets rules.