• Badass_panda@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is it unfair that having wealthy parents gives you an advantage in life?

    Yeah, it is… buy that doesn’t make it unethical for parents to help their kids, it means the society has to improve the safety net.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      That’s the wrong message that you are getting out of that article. The problem is that more and more people need their parents help to get in the market.

      That trend means that at one point, help from parents will be obligatory to buy a first house, closing the market to anyone that doesn’t have rich parents.

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        1 year ago

        I got some bad news to you re: the market being closed to poor people.

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          1 year ago

          Yes, it’s bad news. That’s the point of the article, to draw attention to a bad societal trend, it’s social commentary. Identifying a problem is the first step to solving it.

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      1 year ago

      Sure, it’s not unethical for a kid to accept (necessary) help to survive, though it is to vote for or otherwise institute a society where that is necessary. The point the article is attempting to make is social commentary to draw attention to the fact that increasingly the lottery of inheritance is the only means of owning a home.

      The first step to resolving the issue is identifying it. Nobody likes the implication that their success is not earned, by making that uncomfortable point the author is attempting to cause people to support change to correct this trend.