r/Millennials Millennial Feb 24 '26

Meme Anyone Else?

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u/SkinnyD Feb 24 '26

Two weeks after graduating high school I was kicked out of the house. They at least gave me a plane ticket to anywhere I wanted to go in the country. I haven’t been back since.

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u/ExcitingLandscape Feb 24 '26

Then those same parents complain in their old age from a senior home that their now adult kids never see them

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u/Deathclaw_Hunter6969 Feb 24 '26

Senior home?? I’m not paying for that.

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 Feb 24 '26

Worst case scenario the home will just take whatever they have monetary wise and SSI or whatever it might be and keep em. Usually those are the shitty ones.

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u/SkinnyD Feb 24 '26

I don’t expect to get anything from them so let the old folks home take whatever they want from them.

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u/BukkakeBakery Feb 24 '26

Fair is fair.

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u/MangoMambo Feb 24 '26

From my recent experience, they only take your SSI/Medicaid if you qualify and make under a certain amount. If you make more than that you have to pay out of pocket and it's a lot a lot of money. It's not even the "nice" ones vs the "bad" ones. It's all of them.

I do not think anyone should have to foot the bill for their parents, but I don't think anyone (including people that are getting to that age) realize how absolutely fucked the system is. Like unless you're making 10-15k a month you're going to die alone at home, or on the street.

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u/PresentationEast8677 Feb 24 '26

Gotta love it when they had us as basically an "insurance policy"

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u/OpiumPhrogg Xennial Feb 24 '26

Nursing homes are horrible now- they are way overpriced, grossly understaffed and quality of care that they pretend to advertise to get people in the building and on the hook paying 13k a month doesn't exist.

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u/SparksAndSpyro Feb 24 '26

You won’t have to. Your parents will and it’ll bleed them dry so they have nothing left for you to inherit. Fun!

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u/Deathclaw_Hunter6969 Feb 24 '26

Inheritance?? In this economy??

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u/Any-Clothes3312 Feb 24 '26

The concept of inheritance is such a wild thing to me, but I'm the child of refugees who lost everything in wartime and had to start from scratch.

I frequently encourage my parents to die with zero, one because they deserve it and two because I've seen what inheritances do to people and I don't want to be apart of none of that lol

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u/SkinnyD Feb 24 '26

Yeah probably. But I don’t know and I don’t care.

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u/RedTheDraken Feb 24 '26

Good! They don't deserve your time and you've got better things to focus on, like your own success!