The
other week, my mom told me not to worry about my recommended preventative
periodontal surgeries, and asked me how much they would cost (answer; $1800 a
year, for 2 years in a row, I think, from what I can make out of the
insurance).
She
said that she hoped that that would help me, since I then wouldn’t have to
worry about that.
I
told her that it was nice, but on the other hand it was disturbing to see our
family cannibalizing its wealth like that.
“I
mean honestly,” I was like, “For all the years that I’ve worked, I still have
to worry about a few thousand a year?”
I
then added that student loans hadn’t kicked in yet, and that other people I
know had noticed this, that their parents or others of their parents’
generation had to keep anteing up money for stuff that they should be secure
for by now, but simply aren’t, and won’t be for a while, and not only that, but
probably won’t be able to do anything like that for their children when they get the same age.
“Though
I know that you don’t want to hear that,” I was like.
My
mom then confessed that she had noticed that, that her parents’ generation was
able to save up a little, and her generation a lot, and now that process just isn’t happening any more.
She said her generation was a "peak".
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