‘Nice work if you can get it.
Provided you live long enough to see results. “Instead of 60-year-olds giving to 30-year-olds, it’s going to be 90-year-olds giving to 60-year-olds,” says Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies.
My heart bleeds for the late-middle-aged children of healthy old rich people, it really does.
It’s a problem for all of us: baby boomers now account for half the combined net worth of the US.
Is this another one of those stories about boomers ruining everything?
I’m afraid it is, yes.’
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Amusing back and forth in the Guardian.