Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baby-boomers-embrace-die-with-zero-only-22-will-leave-an-inheritance-to-children.1171554/

"But they're spending money I'm entitled to."

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/baby-boomers-embrace-die-with-zero-only-22-will-leave-an-inheritance-to-children.1171554/page-2#post-138941958

Ain't y'all against wealth hoarding

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baby-boomers-embrace-die-with-zero-only-22-will-leave-an-inheritance-to-children.1171554/page-2#post-138942540

is "Fuck you, don't spend your money, leave it to me when you die" not an inherently selfish position?

They had their time.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baby-boomers-embrace-die-with-zero-only-22-will-leave-an-inheritance-to-children.1171554/page-3#post-138943149

This thread has quickly shown how awful and selfish some people are. You are not entitled to anything in this life besides Death. If you are depending/hoping for your parents or elderly person to die so you can rob their corpse you are not a good person. Work, struggle, and go through life only for your adult children to go you can't spend what you have saved up and earned. I NEED IT!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baby-boomers-embrace-die-with-zero-only-22-will-leave-an-inheritance-to-children.1171554/page-5#post-138946236

If anything, I owe them something.

Do you? You didn't demand to be born.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baby-boomers-embrace-die-with-zero-only-22-will-leave-an-inheritance-to-children.1171554/page-5#post-138946503

lmao

I'm serious.

Your parents taking care of you during your youth and is just a basic moral and legal obligation they took upon themselves by choosing to have you. You didn't come to the negotiation table demanding anything. If you want to walk away at 18 and have fuck all to do with them again, then fair dues.

Now, I treat my mom well because I have an extremely good personal relationship with her. But I don't inherently feel every child is obligated to be indebted to every parent just because, no more than I feel these Boomers are obligated to leave everything to their kids.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baby-boomers-embrace-die-with-zero-only-22-will-leave-an-inheritance-to-children.1171554/page-5#post-138946938

yes its a basic responsibility. That doesn't mean someone can't feel grateful that their parents gave them a good life and set them up to have good opportunities to provide for themselves once they hit adult hood. Ideally, it's the "bare minimum", but we also all know thats not at all guaranteed. Shitty parents exist. Shitty situations exist. I just thought it was a crazy response to someone who was simply expressing gratitude to their own parents.

I feel grateful for everything my parents did for and gave me while also understanding throughout life that they also did some fucked up things or lacked the knowledge I needed in the moment to make sure I wasn't playing catch up later on. Even excellent parents are still fallible people like the rest of us, and thus I'm of two minds that children "owe" their parents something, especially since- again- no one really asks to be born. I think we would all do better to think about and analyze the terms of parental-child relationships beyond the love and bonds that form from healthy relationships. Like, I do the things I do for my mom because I want to, not because I have to, which is what I feel the word "owe" implies.