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Dying Boomers rule (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Article assumes Boomers won't spend it all before they die.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/feb/28/millennials-richest-generation-wealth-property

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Can gen x get it before the millennials blow it on avocado toast and Netflix please?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Gen X here. Mother died of cancer when 13. Father left us two weeks after that. Several years later, father penniless and died of an OD in a ditch in East Tennessee.

Literally was trying to be left with the debt by the State of Tennessee, actually had to obtain a lawyer to show my legal declaration of becoming an orphan when I was a kid to get them to stop.

So the only thing they left me with was a lawyer bill and about two years worth of court proceedings. So no, at least for me, we’re not getting anything from them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, remember that Nintendo you wanted so badly as a child you would do anything to get? Honestly I pretty happy I'm not millennial or gen z, they got it pretty bad. I at least got to live in a cheap Los Angeles and take a decade of my life figuring out a career. These days you better be laser focused and do everything perfectly if you want to thrive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Can relate, am screwed

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No fuck off gen x already blew theirs on cocaine and dotcom stocks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I never had money for cocaine or stocks.

I'm Gen X and I've always been poor.

My parents weren't doing much better, either.

I don't think I can ever retire. I'll be one of those people that gets evicted from a nursing home

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Every generation got fucked. Boomers may be stupid in a lot of cases but they are mostly suffering under the same issues we are.

No war but class war.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

when i was 20, i took care of my grandmother. she got evicted from a so-called 'Christian' assisted living facility, that evicted her on Christmas.

people... what a bunch of bastards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Christian is a dirty word and it's Christian's fault