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It also doesn't hurt that recent generations were convinced to take on tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt, as teenagers.

Having a negative net worth makes you desperate for money.

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Not only that but their parents and grandparents were and still are encouraged to live spendthrift lifestyles so younger generation will inherit less. I get a laugh out of certain ads; stuff your spoilt brat kids, you worked hard, you deserve to reverse mortgage your house and travel the world, buy that motorbike, do that thing.

The astronomical costs of long-term care eat through any inheritance anyway.

Yes, there is a pamphlet for that as well. “No longer living life to the fullest, tired of being a burden on those around you, end of life services has a solution. For 5 easy payments of $39.99 a better place awaits you.”

In my opinion corporatism has worked with government to drive a wedge between family generations and I worry that the fallout will be quite brutal.

I have nightmares of desperate youth deliberately infecting their parents with black market Covid in an effort to speed up and preserve their inheritance.

I worry that parents will find illicit ways to off themselves to prevent their family's fortune going to the for-profit 'healthcare' system whose main function is to extract money.

My father is determined not to waste away like his father so is keeping an eye out for end of life options for when the time comes. I’ve been given instructions to pull the plug at the earliest opportunity. I suggested he take up rock climbing and progressively take bigger risks.

My cynical side tells me that the real reluctance to legal euthanasia is that the dying are a huge profit center in the U.S..

Not saying you're wrong, but considering the societal disruption of people (anyone, including people that the society would like to keep around for one reason or another) caused by people checking out because of their definition of decreased quality of life. It's not just about whether the doctors think that your meat sack is gonna fail critically in the next 6 months (one criteria for assisted suicide) but whether you like what you see when you wake up and look around each day. If it's not fun any more, it will become harder to sell the idea of sticking around.

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