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> Screw their offspring? I agree that inheritance shouldn't be a natural right. I don't really expect to receive anything from my parents. However, things lik
by morgante 10y ago
> Screw their offspring?
I agree that inheritance shouldn't be a natural right. I don't really expect to receive anything from my parents.
However, things like rampant anti-development attitudes are an untenable example of screwing their offspring. The older generation already owns houses, so they love opposing any new development without regard for the fact that it's making home ownership impossible for all but the wealthiest or luckiest of my generation.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> so they love opposing any new development without regard for the fact that it's making home ownership impossible for all but the wealthiest or luckiest of my generation. I doubt very much that the effect it has on price of existing real estate and how it limits the market is something that the decision to oppose growth is made "withour regard for".
- morgante 10y agoOh, you're right that they absolutely consider the gains to their own wealth which can come from such policies. The cognitive dissonance is when they then turn around and wonder why kids these days (including their own) can't afford to live on their own.