• fodor@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

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

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • jimmux@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      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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        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.

  • 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.

    • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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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    1 year ago

    They’re more likely to kick the ladder out from under themselves, if gen Z doesn’t been them to it.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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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      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.

  • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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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.

    • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world
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      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