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My prediction: scams that target this are going to massively increase. The majority of people I know are not planning on having kids. There’s a huge percentage
by Dig1t 2y ago
My prediction: scams that target this are going to massively increase.
The majority of people I know are not planning on having kids. There’s a huge percentage of my generation who are the last of their family and will have nobody to manage their estate when they start declining cognitively. There’s going to be a big opportunity for scammers and even legit businesses to vacuum up all of their wealth.
- foxglacier 2y agoThough birth rates are declining, also age of mothers having their first child is increasing so depending on your friends' ages, it might not be as bad as it seems. They may say no up to their early 30's but change their mind by their late 30's. For fathers, who are generally older, that could happen in their 40's. It did for me. I wonder what proportion of women would naturally want to have children if there was no social or economic pressure either way. I suspect it's higher than the proportion of professional women who have children because low-income women do so at a higher rate. So we may have a generation of lonely old people sitting on a pile of money and being doubly vulnerable to scams.
- S_Bear 2y agoI don't know, my lifetime lack of affordable healthcare probably means I'll die unexpectedly before my mind goes. So that's nice.