Seriously, this article is 20 years old.

It was incredible some boomers couldn't see that between college debt, and a radically different world of cost in housing to say nothing of food, transportation and energy costs, that their generation's corporate permissiveness and privatization had collectively taken away what was so generously given to them by society. The effects this had on relationships, marriage and even children is crystal clear--and that's maybe one of the most truly awful parts of it...the generation had a future life and maybe children they would have wanted taken from the by course of corporate economics.

Corporate PR pushed the narratives to be fair, it was an early attempt to confuse or distract the clear end of the American dream for young Americans. Your college degree is worthless and your enormous loans are non-discharageable even in bankruptcy, and you need 10 years at median gross salary to buy a home. Meanwhile, salaries are now aggressively managed down or to a "market average" under the guide of equity but more to control paying for the value of work. The trap was laid and 30 years or so of Americans were slaughtered in it's teeth.

Before or after healthcare costs suck away all their assets?

My sister and I joke that we're hermit crabs moving into each other's shells

My grandmother died, my sister moved into her house

My mother in law moved in with her elderly mother (my wife's mom and grandmom) to take care of her so my wife and I got her house

And for our next shells, my sister is eyeing my uncle's house (he has no kids of his own, so it's split between her my cousin, and myself in his will)

And I'm eyeing my parents house.

My sister and I have an agreement that we won't make any move to try to claim the house the other wants.

And as for my cousin's share of my uncle's house, he can either have my sister's current house (which we think would be ideal, it would get all 3 of us into the same town and he has some special needs so it would be nice for us to be close by if he needs anything) or she'll buy him out of it with the money from selling her current house.

This of course hinges on my parents and uncle staying reasonably healthy and financially secure, if they end up as vegetables with a nursing home draining all of their assets or decide to blow all of their wealth in Vegas or something the whole plan could kind of fall apart. Looking at family history and their current health, age etc. though we think things are pretty much on-track.

So glad I’m not the only one who was happy about that.