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.
I mean, young people can't afford their houses, at some point something's gotta give, or yeah they'll sell them to corporations.
Corporate nursing homes milking them of all their remaining inheritable money.
Exactly this. I've seen it with two of my family members.
And casinos.
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
You oughta see their gilded temples. They’re really hurting for money.
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They've already done it. The environment is fucked for future generations.
they didn't stop
It's been happening for a while. Aged care is very expensive, and is often secured with assets. These places will take all the hoarded wealth before it can transfer to anyone who needs it.
Some would say the answer is to not outsource care of our loved ones, but how do we do that without housing or job security, in an economy where nobody has the time for it?
There is also the faintest possible possibility that some sort of home health care robot will become available in the next 20 years or so, but it'll probably be very expensive.
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Dying and leaving us holding the bag.
Rather, dying and leaving it all to the few sycophantic offspring they've managed to brainwash to continue their legacy.
this.. this is absolutely my exact life situation right now.
like we don't agree about ANYTHING even though i am literally watching them suffer from the consequences of how they've been voting since they came of age (fuck Reagan)
why do i keep hanging out with them? because they have a boat? i don't think it's worth it anymore
ugh
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.
The easy answer is by spending all their money before they die so that their kids/grandkids don't really have an inheritance.
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Gravesites. There will be no room to bury Gen X and down.
Jokes on them, we will never be able to stop working long enough to have a proper funeral. They'll just bury us where we drop.
Not like most of us care anyway. Just throw my rotten corpse in a dumpster, ain't nobody wanna smell it anyway.
Eh, here in Sweden it is normal to reuse grave sites, you normally get a grave site for 25 years, but it can be extended.
The relatives of the person buried can extend the time that the gravesite is yours, but it costs money.
Sooner or later the gravesite is returned to the church to be reused.
That's the way it is in a lot of European countries. Every single acre of land would be a gravesite if not for this system.
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Good thing more and more people are choosing cremation these days.
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.
...privatization of social security...
This is the correct answer. And, they’ll do it so that it kicks in only for people younger than them.
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Climate change, although the younger generations aren't doing much to help with that either.
Firing the FED chairman and putting a political appointee in his place. It's kicking the ladder out from underneath you while you hang yourself with Epstein's rope.
I think crashing the dollar is more likely to screw the boomers than the young. They have the wealth which will devalue. The super wealthy with generational wealth will be fine as inflation will help their assets. the boomers transitioning from assets to cash for stability in retirement will be screwed.
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All their estates are going to healthcare bills.
Blocking all progress on climate change in order to squeeze every last ounce of profit out of the fossil fuel industry...and then watching the world burn from their private orbital habitat.
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.
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.
Trump
Mutually Assured Destruction
My dad gets a kick out of hearing how bad the environment is. He literally wants the world to die with him. I think most boomers feel that way. I think they truly would love the word to be nucked. They don't give two shits about any other generation. Thats why they don't care about climate change. They truly so selfish that the world should die with them and we all suffer.
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Figure out a way to live an extra 10 years so any money they have left goes right into the healthcare system never to be seen again.
They're more likely to kick the ladder out from under themselves, if gen Z doesn't been them to it.
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Go full zombie (with the help of Fox 'News').
Then put all of their assets into Trump coins.
climate change.
Nuclear war
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