Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway

• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Which is the big unspoken thing here: the only reason millennials/ Gen Z would even care about ‘inheritance’ is because everything has gone so fucking far to shit that it seems the only way to claw out of the hole they’re being shoved into. It’s turned into a lottery wish.

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  • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wholeheartedly agree with that - what we need is not a system of generational wealth being passed down particular families, but an economic system that spreads it out better.

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They can both be drivers of inequality, but the billionaire bullshit is by far the greater kick in the nuts.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah but how did they get it, and who will get it when they die? It’s like a feedback loop.

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• Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Inheritance is still inequality in that those receiving it did nothing to deserve it.

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  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Considering that rich boomer parents are almost exclusively fucking terrible, I’d say having to grow up with them makes it more palatable. They may get some money, but they never got love.

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