I think most people on niche platforms like this are westerners (edit: by “westerner” I mean someone who is a “native” of countries with a western culture), and I’m bored so I just want to talk and share a different perspective. (Also, because Lemmy is a bit quiet at the moment, too quiet for my liking)
Political questions are welcomed.
Intergenerational family homes are a result of poverty. They are not something to aspire to. It’s because those people are generally too poor to buy homes.
And we’re going back to that in the west now. I’m a skilled tradesman with over a decade of experience and I get paid so poorly I had to move back in with my mom.
They are not a result of poverty. Its common around the world to take care of your parents when they are old. Only in the west do we think its normal to chuck our parents in a retirement home when they are old.
Taking care of your parents and having to live with them as working adult because you’re paid so poorly are worlds apart.
Yeah and I’m clearly not talking about being forced to live with them so I don’t know why you keep bring that up.
But that’s the entire reason that most places in the world have intergenerational homes.
It’s like saying, “I think we should go back to women being homemakers. No no, I’m clearly not talking about the 99% of homemakers that didn’t have a choice about it.”
I don’t agree and your example is not relevant. Women having the freedom to choose to work or stay home is completely different than taking care of your parents when they are elderly.
Its more expensive to take care of your parents in an intergenerational home than it is to ignore your parents and let the government take care of them.
Well first you said intergenerational homes, now you’re saying taking care of parents when they’re old.
You’re just changing your statement in an attempt to dismiss my response.
I never changed my statement. Taking care of your parents is an intergenerational home. When your parents are at the age where you need to look after them then you will typically have children of your own.
This is not done because poverty. It’s done because taking care of your family is the human thing to do.
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