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Let's say you are grandma who bought a good sized house for 200k. You are about to retire and all the kids are gone so you sell the house.
Situation 1, the price of your house rose to 1 mil, you net 800,000. You spend a third to buy a condo in an old person condominium, and now you have 700,000 on top of your 401k and SS to spend in your dotage.
Situation 2, the price of your home went back down to 300k. You net 100k. The price of the condo also fell, now it's 100k. You only have 200k extra to add to your nest egg. Assuming other costs stayed the same, you are worse off.
There are lots of people who would be better off too. But it's the Baby Boomers who are retiring, and they are such a huge voting block no one wants to mess with it for now. Maybe when Gen X retires.
Gen X doesn't get to retire, because once the Boomers start dying off, the Millennials will vote to take all we've saved and all the more foolish of us believed we were promised.
God, I hope so.
Boomers as a voting block are too formidable but millennials outnumber genx so it might be the first opportunity in a generation to actually smash that Ponzi scheme to a million pieces.
Someone’s got to take the hit when we draw the line, and millennials got mega fucked economically by a combination the vagaries of history and poor public policy.
How much sharper than a serpent's tooth....
(ha, good thing I didn't have kids)
I’m a millennial with young kids so it’s do or die for me at this point.
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