Article assumes Boomers won’t spend it all before they die.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/feb/28/millennials-richest-generation-wealth-property

122 points

Weird it doesn’t feel like it.

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87 points

It’s the cruelest clickbait I’ve seen in a long time.

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23 points

Richest in variety of debt, maybe

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Just as a feature of inflation the numbers that represent the wealth held by millenials will almost certainly eclipse that held by previous generations. But also thanks to inflation the actual value change represented by that larger number is sweet FA. Everything is just more expensive.

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Isn’t this is all technically attributed to people like Mark Zuckerberg, who on his own accounts for 2% of all millennial wealth?

The ultra wealthy keep skewing the fucking “average” numbers ever higher until the “average” is way higher than what over half of citizens actually have.

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36 points

Spider Georg moment

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88 points

This article assumes my parents are rich. I don’t have new money and I’m not receiving old money.

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71 points

Capitalist propaganda

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49 points

Jesus fucking christ these people are out of thouch

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