inheritance

INHERITANCE


Inheritance for your spawn can be a straight forward manner. The best solution is, they get nothing. They were spoiled rotten and are punks and you spit on their memories. Needless to say, most of us can’t take that hard line approach. Hell, you can’t even tell the wife, a non-blood relation, to piss off and die and she is condemning you all to an early death, etc. So you are certainly going to go out of your way to forgive your children the multitudes of sins they are guilty of and grant them the wish of easy money. The only other two choices are letting Uncle Obammy have it all, rather silly since it took you fifty years of blood and sweat to build your wealth and it will take him the micro second of brain neurons connections to decide to send it to the Central Bank where it will register as one one hundredth of a percent of profit for that one hour that is being used to manipulate the stock market to steal the accumulated wealth of tens of millions of other retirees, or two, you can spend it all before you die. Which, even if your kids are serial killers getting their jollies packing fudge in the pen, seems rather selfish to me. In this passing age of easy money and undeserved wealth, what makes you think you are any more deserving of extra money than the other fifteen million wrinkled old bats living in retirement communities in Florida or Arizona? Did you actually do much more than shuffle papers behind a desk for the military and then local government for those fifty years ( the reference to blood and sweat was really just giving you the benefit of the doubt but now that I think about it you are a lazy bastard and deserve nothing )?

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In times past, the three generational family lived in the family hovel, passed down generation to generation, working tilled fields whose fertile soil had been husbanded carefully all those generations. Everybody pitched in and everyone benefited and future family built on the continued success of hard work ( for craps and giggles here we assume that every other generation wasn’t actually burned out by bandits, or had their young sons killed in wars fought over inbred cousins of the kings, or had to wipe out the soil by over planting because of poor weather or extra levied taxes used to fight the wars over which king got to procreate with the banjo playing first cousin or any of the other catastrophes that befell dirt poor dirt farmers chained to their pathetic lands- because God forbid I throw the reality of serfs into the mix ). Passing on actual money was never a factor outside the upper crust of society. So, inheritance was never complicated. Even for the moneyed class, it was pretty simple. The eldest got most, the subsequent born got a big rotted knobby stick shoved up their bum. But hey, they had that wonderful family name that opened a door or two. Can you imagine the British Commonwealth, being hamstrung by a military officiated by these loser bi-products of no birth control, taking over so much of the globe? Amazing.

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So, in the olde times, you grew up and got the family farm ( I don’t know what the other sons got, I imagine permission to piss off and go pan gold in minus fifty degree Alaska. And the daughters got to wed at fifteen, to the widower Elmer Oldpuke- ah, the good old days ). Tomorrow, it will be about the same. What with the death of wealth, the end of oil and the rebirth of decentralization. But until then, how to intelligently pass on your inheritance. You leave money, and after a hefty tax your heirs go on a long vacation to Las Vegas and in one or two weekends of drunken debauchery, probably filled with cocaine and hookers ( prostitution is illegal in the urban areas of Nevada, so they will be schtooping the diseased nasty illegal hos ), all the money is gone and they go back to sniveling that their McMansion and SUV payment doesn’t leave them enough money to buy their daily double decaf mocha latte. You simply have to do better than that.

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And here is the great thing about frugal preps. You pour all your hard earned ( or, in the case of you civil servant pukes, hard extorted-don’t worry, I don’t hate you if you regularly buy through my Amazon links ) money into preps. All your decades of extra wealth, obviously only available because you scrimped and saved and did without luxuries, are put into non liquid forms. To you and me, a bucket of beans is a months supply of food, priceless in turbulent times. To a ne’er-do-well on the inheritance list, it can’t be traded for a nickel bag of weed. It can’t be sold in normal times, and in fact will be thrown away ( yuck, old gross- what in the hell is it, anyway?! ). Why would they need a water filter? The tap water is all they need. That junk land, a non-electric grid, no water, rutted road piece of crap the county can’t even sell for back taxes ( you just know the kids will let the taxes go and let it be repo’ed ). How do they sell that old, green covered ammunition in a strange caliber ( shucks, Clint, what’s this here 7.7? )? And who would buy an old beat up wood stock bolt gun with no scope mount?

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By turning all your surplus into preps, you are buying insurance. Both life insurance for yourself, life insurance for your kids who listened to your warnings and appreciate what you have buried, and insurance against ill mannered children selling anything to get the proceeds to consume frivolously. Frugal preps are a win-win.

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