Reminds me a recent story: a friend's girlfriend, in her 50's, recently took off a month off to help move her widowed mother, in her 70's, down to a new retire

Reminds me a recent story: a friend's girlfriend, in her 50's, recently took off a month off to help move her widowed mother, in her 70's, down to a new retirement place in Florida. She took all her stuff from a 3000 sq ft house. My two observations: 1. The economic price for someone to take a month off to move and rearrange a sizeable household is nontrivial. 2. That someone would desire to spent the rest of their days in a big house full of stuff is foreign to me. This is the generational divide. The formation of a estate filled with physical possessions is a prime driver for a lot of older folks. The younger set isn't so interested in that. My ideal retirement: a bed, a desk, and a laptop in a small flat on the left bank in Paris. This is going to have a big impact on several industries. In the future, fine furniture and china manufacturers are going to look like furriers today.