Normalizing Dying Penniless-A Five Lens Brief
How fifty companies turned your Mother's last decade into a dividend
A recent Washington Post article bemoaned the “Soaring Cost of Aging” in America.
Upon closer inspection, what the article really does is normalize dying penniless without doing the investigative journalism that the piece seemingly provides.
If the American people understood how the aged and their families are being fleeced, there would be hell to pay.
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Normalizing Dying Penniless: How Fifty Companies Turned Your Mother’s Last Decade Into a Dividend
The greatest inheritance transfer in history is coming. Several strategically placed companies are set to take their cut first — before it ever reaches the family. Fewer than fifty companies control America’s senior living market. There’s no price ceiling on what they can charge, almost nothing new is being built to compete with them, and their own investors are being told that’s exactly the point. The families call it fate. For the businesses extracting the wealth, it’s a profit center.
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