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I feel with Millennials not being able to buy normal sized homes and the rise of minimalism with trends like Marie Kondo, this traditional junk transfer may end
by chaostheory 4y ago
I feel with Millennials not being able to buy normal sized homes and the rise of minimalism with trends like Marie Kondo, this traditional junk transfer may end with Gen X.
- astrange 4y agoI wonder how far back these traditions go? People didn’t have the ability to generate junk until recently. Even the concept of generations is post-WW2.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThis only exists because of industrialization and the creation of a middle class who had disposable income to buy surplus stuff. Before that, inherited items were truly precious.
- _carbyau_ 4y agoI see it as a % game. A larger % the currently dying generation may have a bunch of useless stuff. The next generation will likely have a lesser %. But it's probably not a big difference in %. This is just humans being humans.
- heurisko 4y agoI think there is also a generational divide in not wanting to collect figurines, ornaments etc.
- thebigspacefuck 4y agoMillennials will inherit the houses along with the junk.
- trgn 4y agoThe great junk transfer is the flipside of the great wealth transfer. It's going to be massive, and only just starting.