• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    On top of the fact that you need to have saved money to pay to live in a retirement home.

    Are… Are there people that sort of really hope to just go from their patents’ basement to a retirement home?

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      Well if they bothered to submit those patents instead of leaving them in the basement then they might be able to live in a retirement home

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      How many of us are still in our parents’ basements? I’m nearly 40, struggling through our 20s was one thing but by now…

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        I dunno. Depends on the acceptability of calling it a “multi - generational household” because Boomers locked up to much wealth and now have to live with the consequences.