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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.

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.

Corporate slavery. Indentured indefinitely.

Reverse mortgages.

climate change.

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.

Climate change, although the younger generations aren't doing much to help with that either.

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.

Corporate nursing homes milking them of all their remaining inheritable money.

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

To spite the libs, they'll inflate the US dollar till its worthless.

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?

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.

They've already done it. The environment is fucked for future generations.

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.

Gravesites. There will be no room to bury Gen X and down.

The easy answer is by spending all their money before they die so that their kids/grandkids don't really have an inheritance.

Nuclear war

why would there be a "final way"?

...privatization of social security...

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.

All their estates are going to healthcare bills.

Trump

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.

Leave their houses to their pets when they die.

Mutually Assured Destruction

In the U.S., project 2025.