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Yesterday, I was running my grandmother around for her errands. I was picking up some soil at Walmart (she insisted) and the radio host started talking about Sting and how he's not giving his kids anything when he dies.

According to the host, she quoted Sting saying "I'm not leaving my kids anything. They all have great work ethic, and it's a form of child abuse to say 'Oh, here's what I left you. You don't have to work if you don't want to.'"

She further went on to say with utter seriousness "It's such a, you know, great thing for a parent to do. Why don't they just give it all to charity, or, you know, spend it on themselves? Leaving it for the kids? That's just, I don't know, like you're babying them from beyond the grave. That's terrible to do to your kids, right?"

I sat there in silence for a moment as I just turned that over in my head in disbelief that they just up and said it out loud. It's evil.

Of course, my grandmother, who put herself over 40K in debt and has never been one to save anything or build anything even when she was younger (even back when my grandpa was alive and it was early in their marriage, she managed to drive our family to bankruptcy at least once and I know of 3 times in my 31 years of life she's done the same) just sat there in silence as I mumbled to myself about how evil and immoral the anti-inheritance people are.

Because we all know that the evil people pushing this on others aren't doing the same for themselves. No, they're hoarding it for their families, using unscrupulous practices to gather more and more, and no matter how they spend it they're never going to run out of money at this point.

While it's been more just a fact of life these last few decades that parents won't leave their kids or other family much, now they're trying to make it a righteous action to deliberately give them nothing and the kids should be happy about it. A sickening idea all around.

This is literally the first time I've heard it said out loud that "Leaving your kids nothing is a good thing," and on the radio of all places.

Yesterday, I was running my grandmother around for her errands. I was picking up some soil at Walmart (she insisted) and the radio host started talking about Sting and how he's not giving his kids anything when he dies. According to the host, she quoted Sting saying "I'm not leaving my kids anything. They all have great work ethic, and it's a form of child abuse to say 'Oh, here's what I left you. You don't have to work if you don't want to.'" She further went on to say with utter seriousness "It's such a, you know, great thing for a parent to do. Why don't they just give it all to charity, or, you know, spend it on themselves? Leaving it for the kids? That's just, I don't know, like you're babying them from beyond the grave. That's terrible to do to your kids, right?" I sat there in silence for a moment as I just turned that over in my head in disbelief that they just up and said it out loud. It's evil. Of course, my grandmother, who put herself over 40K in debt and has never been one to save anything or build anything even when she was younger (even back when my grandpa was alive and it was early in their marriage, she managed to drive our family to bankruptcy at least once and I know of 3 times in my 31 years of life she's done the same) just sat there in silence as I mumbled to myself about how evil and immoral the anti-inheritance people are. Because we all know that the evil people pushing this on others aren't doing the same for themselves. No, they're hoarding it for their families, using unscrupulous practices to gather more and more, and no matter how they spend it they're never going to run out of money at this point. While it's been more just a fact of life these last few decades that parents won't leave their kids or other family much, now they're trying to make it a righteous action to deliberately give them nothing and the kids should be happy about it. A sickening idea all around. This is literally the first time I've heard it said out loud that "Leaving your kids nothing is a good thing," and on the radio of all places.
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[–] • 1 pt

I've heard it from Boomers. I've also heard them say they didn't think that until the internet brought out all the "OK Boomer" and straight up blaming everything wrong on them. So they said, fine, if you want to hate on me and be disrespectful, I'll spend as much as I want, I earned it, I worked hard, I didn't get some huge inheritance, I'll spend as much as I want and do all the things I wanted to do and you can have the scraps left over....Not saying that I agree with that but Millennials got ruined as the everybody gets a trophy generation. The real world doesn't hand things to you and they directed their collective hate towards Boomers.

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Eh, combined with the "kick them out of the house at 18" and "Pull yourself up by the bootstraps" phenomenon, combined with refusing to acknowledge that the world they grew up in and the world we (I'd say from late 80's/early 90's onward at the earliest as a best estimate) live in is radically different really contributed to the "ok boomer" mentality.

What's the point in building up anything real if you're not going to pass it on to your kids/family? And framing it as abusive to leave it is magnitudes worse as well.

"What kind of father is it that gives his son a serpent when his son asks for a fish?"