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.
Isn’t it the richest church in the world
Bro 😔 I am so sorry. Assuming you are not a drug addict or something you didn’t deserve that.
Assuming you are not a drug addict or something you didn’t deserve that.
What a weird second sentence.
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.
20 years?
You know boomers are already 70+ right? In 20 years they’ll all mostly be dead anyway and their wealth sucked up by medical debt and end of life care services.
Well then maybe Gen X will get them.
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.
This works for me. My dad died when I was 19 and I got a little insurance money, but he left his significant estate to his 2nd family. Fucking pos, burn in hell.
Wife’s dad died a few years later. Left her a little, but when you’re 20-something, you have no idea how to manage it. Had a relative help manage it, she did a great job of picking losers so it slowly dwindled down to very little in about 10 years.
Wife’s mom was an invalid ward of the state, we had to pay for a bunch of her expenses. No insurance or assets to speak of, all her shit went into a dumpster as most was garbage.
My mom is left and shes never met a dollar she couldn’t spend. My brothers and I are giving her money and food so she can stay in her house, but its in a shitty neighborhood and has many stairs. She has already said she won’t go into a home, I guess that means one of us has to take her in. She has lots of ugly old Ethan Allen furniture that she thinks is worth a fortune, but its just ugly old furniture.
All we got from this was a little money when we were too young to manage it and expenses from anyone left.
I am so envious of friends who have parents that put something aside for them. They will have an actual retirement. I will be working until I’m old as shit.
To spite the libs, they’ll inflate the US dollar till its worthless.
Nope. Till, though an older form of the word, would be the acceptable term, with 'til being an informal shortening of until that’s used mainly in poetry for cadence (source).
My grammar allies have arrived!
Although frankly the spongebob guy with a board nailed to his head is also pretty much me.
I may not be perfect at it (at all, considering English is not my mother tongue), but I love grammar. It’s linguistic artwork.
Also, I love this alot lol
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.
Is everything broken down in 25 years or do they do something with the remains?
Most people here are cremated, I also remember the urn my grandfather was buried in was biodegradable so after 25 years there is nothing really left.
I don’t know if everything is broken into 25 years, or so, that is just what I read on the Chruch of Sweden’s website.
What happens to the bodies already buried within?
They are first cremated, and at leat when my grandad died, the ash was placed in a biodegradable urn, so I’ll assume it just biodegrade when the next guy is going in.
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.
Climate change, although the younger generations aren’t doing much to help with that either.
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.
Leave their houses to their pets when they die.
Nah, pets are too mortal. They’ll be donated to the historical association and be considered landmarks we can neither destroy or live in.
Pet tortoise?
still mortal, could have an untimely deathYes, tortoises, let’s tell them to leave it all to tortoises.
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.
He’s why The Greatest Generation, and The Forgotten Generation called them The Me Generation, not Boomers. The Me Generation then tried to stick Gen X with that moniker, not realizing that they were too selfish to have enough children for Gen X to ever be relevant.
Booooo Me-ers
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.
