Anyway, what you really don't understand is how much the context changed. Nowadays "leaving it to the kids" means grandparents living something to their grandk

Anyway, what you really don't understand is how much the context changed. Nowadays "leaving it to the kids" means grandparents living something to their grandkids. In the past it meant a 30 year old man leaving something behind for their 12 years old children. Some of the infrastructures we are leaving behind was already in place when my mother was being born (in the late 1940s). It is still functioning. I wouldn't call it poor built, it is probably poorly maintained, but it's understandable when the only people willing to maintain it are old folks or immigrants with no other option and the knowledge about the inner workings are lost or degraded. But my generation and the generation before me are leaving to our descendants the f*ing internet which is an unprecedented marvel if you ask me, comparable to the agricultural revolution, the steam engine, the printing press and the electricity.