Thinheritance

First of all. Kids. Ha. No.

However, this is an interesting observation, since homes used to be placed where you entertained guests. You had people over for an evening to drink and share stories and everything.

But, we're not a sentimental age. Millennials, Gen Z, etc.... Everything has been made to be temporary for us. There is no permanence. We don't buy homes, we have to rent because all of the homes are being purchased by a handful of people in that area and their being converted into rentals. The most expensive things we own are our cars, and even then, it's probably a lease, so that's basically like renting the car anyways, just with more steps. We don't need to get together for social time in our homes. We tend to go out and borrow a table for an evening at the local pub, or go to the beach or something. We rarely meet in person, often drinking alone but together over the vast world wide web.

Speaking of the Internet, there's so many people on there, that most of our connections become extremely temporary. We'll meet, play together, laugh together, and depart within hours. The likelihood of seeing eachother again is slim to none, and even if it happens, we probably won't remember.

We're in an age where you're not friends with the friends you have on Facebook... Your Facebook friends is a long list of people you met once or twice and never saw again, now permanently a part of your life on a friend's list you never look at. It's become a meaningless thing to be on someone's friends list.

All of the things that should be permanent are so ubiquitous that they've lost any meaning that they had, and that's how we live. Temporary particle board furniture, that will swell up and disintegrate with high enough humidity. Temporary connections from tinder or whatever. Temporary hangouts at a local location... We don't "do" hosting anymore, and when we do, everyone is too focused on a screen to notice that your furniture is falling apart or that you have no unnecessary stuff . Having things is a statement of wealth, because you need to have some place to put them, which means real estate. We are not wealthy. Our parents generation ensured we couldn't be when they became capitulent in the dismantling of unions, and the destruction of the middle class. They spent their wealth and our inheritance on retirement, which was made to be worthless sums of money by the economic inflation that they wrought.

The current generations have been beaten into submission to accept everything as temporary and be happy about it. We are frequently convinced that we like it like this.

We do not value these things because it represents a permanence that we neither care for, nor have we ever enjoyed.

Oh no! A drop of water fell on it and it's swollen and fell apart.

There's a song about this phenomenon in Québecois French called Dégénération, from Mes Aïeux.

It starts with your great great grand father clearing the land, your great grand father plowing the land, your grand father making a profit out of it, your father selling it to be a white collar, and you, living in a one room apartment, owing debts to corporations.

The lyrics are pretty conservative and portray a rosy past, but it goes with the traditional style and the fact the band's name means "my ancestors". This being said, the song is still pretty spot on about this phenomenon. Here's a link to the translated lyrics, and the song.

EDIT: Oh and there's a parody (no translation, sorry) stating the obvious, like "your great great great grand mother, she took dumps in a bucket, and she only had three teeth left, but it was paradise."

Sorry, people who came before me. My storage is way more space-efficient. It's not like I'll ever own a house, so this is a priority.

Maybe dont sell grandma's stuff

It won't last that long.

Kallax is great, it can fit so many board games.

I mean, it's not surprising when you're not sure if you're going to be where you are in even three years.

I love the furniture on the left, but until I bought a house I was NOT gonna put that into an apartment. I never spent more than five years in an apartment. The longest I ever spent in a single location was the house I lived in college where I lived with five other college goers and grads about 7 years.

You can genuinely get some fantastic deals on furniture like the left. I got a gorgeous 4 poster queen bed for 15 bucks. It was an absolute nightmare to move, had to rent a truck to move it, it works great though. If I had to move it every three years though, fuck that.

Look at this dood, showing off their wealth being able to afford EKETs.