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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2026
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Honestly, I do feel terrible for the poor Uncle if this is true.
I can understand from the Son's point of view that seeing his parent's "hoarding" savings that he could really use to keep afloat would make him feel spiteful...
But ultimately that is an incredibly selfish perspective - trying to guilt your parents into giving up the dreams they'd possibly spent years saving towards after all the years they spent putting them aside to raise you.
... And to punish them so harshly for refusing to give up their dreams is cruel. If I do have a child one day, I would hope they're not so self-minded.
Life is also cruel in that way. You finally manage to scrape away the time and money to do what you wanted and its robbed from you.
I kinda think this is one of those “Everybody Sucks Here” but we are only getting half the perspective. In any case the son isn’t owed his dads life savings and a dad isn’t owed his sons affection or respect.
i promise any child who gets to this point wishes their parents weren’t so self-minded as well, but now housing and healthcare are impossibly commodified and the ladders have been getting pulled up for 45 years.
maybe if we didn’t live under oligarchical control, you wouldn’t have to scrape away the future of your children just to take a trip overseas- but acting like it’s an inevitability of life and not an injustice of the slave drivers in control is thought terminating and frankly disturbing.
not that i know how this specific guy treated his kid, but it’s a far worse punishment to be born into a family that treats you like an investment above all and most children with this attitude had that kind of upbringing. in such cases, the parents are simply reaping what they sowed. the children didn’t get a choice.