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Dying Boomers rule (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 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 6 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 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.

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