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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On top of the fact that you need to have saved money to pay to live in a retirement home.

Are... Are there people that sort of really hope to just go from their patents' basement to a retirement home?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well if they bothered to submit those patents instead of leaving them in the basement then they might be able to live in a retirement home

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How many of us are still in our parents' basements? I'm nearly 40, struggling through our 20s was one thing but by now...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno. Depends on the acceptability of calling it a "multi - generational household" because Boomers locked up to much wealth and now have to live with the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I should change my name to "The Consequences" since I live with my boomer parents