‘It feels like a worse version of Lotto’: what Australians told us about the great intergenerational wealth transfer

‘The inheritance could mean buying a house.’ Composite: Guardian design/Getty Images

Over the next two decades, economists predict that $5.4tn will be passed down from ageing baby boomers to their beneficiaries. We asked Guardian Australia readers to share their experience of giving, getting or living without an inheritance. Here is what some told us.

Ash, Western Australia