• If Only@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    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

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    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.

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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.

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    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.

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

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    7 days ago

    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.

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      Jokes on them, we will never be able to stop working long enough to have a proper funeral. They’ll just bury us where we drop.

      Not like most of us care anyway. Just throw my rotten corpse in a dumpster, ain’t nobody wanna smell it anyway.

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      Eh, here in Sweden it is normal to reuse grave sites, you normally get a grave site for 25 years, but it can be extended.

      The relatives of the person buried can extend the time that the gravesite is yours, but it costs money.

      Sooner or later the gravesite is returned to the church to be reused.

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        That’s the way it is in a lot of European countries. Every single acre of land would be a gravesite if not for this system.

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          Most people here are cremated, I also remember the urn my grandfather was buried in was biodegradable so after 25 years there is nothing really left.

          I don’t know if everything is broken into 25 years, or so, that is just what I read on the Chruch of Sweden’s website.

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          They are first cremated, and at leat when my grandad died, the ash was placed in a biodegradable urn, so I’ll assume it just biodegrade when the next guy is going in.

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      My cousin’s neighbor got screwed by this. Thought he was inheriting the home et al - turns out the bank is coming in to take the home unless he can come up with a chunk of money he absolutely doesn’t have. Now he has to unexpectedly move.

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      My dad gets a kick out of hearing how bad the environment is. He literally wants the world to die with him. I think most boomers feel that way. I think they truly would love the word to be nucked. They don’t give two shits about any other generation. Thats why they don’t care about climate change. They truly so selfish that the world should die with them and we all suffer.

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        He’s why The Greatest Generation, and The Forgotten Generation called them The Me Generation, not Boomers. The Me Generation then tried to stick Gen X with that moniker, not realizing that they were too selfish to have enough children for Gen X to ever be relevant.