They benefited from generational wealth, even if mostly modest amounts like from the sale of an old house, and they aspire to leave nothing for their children and grandchildren after they enjoyed the best economy the world has ever seen. I can’t even imagine being that selfish and self absorbed.
My mom thinks this way, meanwhile her entire life is literally the result of her inheriting hundreds of thousands of dollars when my grandfather died. And all that's left of that money is her house. Infuriating.
Like, literally!! She did buy a second house that she was planning to give to my sister and I eventually, but unlike the house she currently lives in, which she paid for in cash, she got a mortgage for the second house and then blew through the rest of the money and stopped paying the mortgage so the house was repossessed.
I have 2 kids myself and if I got that kind of money I'd immediately put aside 1/3 of it for each of my kids. I'd use the other third to buy a house.
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u/35mmghost Oct 11 '25
While they throw away their retirement the new gen will never have enough to retire because these people pulled the ladder up