• huginn@feddit.it
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    4 months ago

    All that money in ticky-tack mcmansions that they’ll never sell.

    Wealth isn’t wealth if it’s paper only.

  • Zip2@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    Can gen x get it before the millennials blow it on avocado toast and Netflix please?

    • Restaldt@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      No fuck off gen x already blew theirs on cocaine and dotcom stocks

      • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 months ago

        I never had money for cocaine or stocks.

        I’m Gen X and I’ve always been poor.

        My parents weren’t doing much better, either.

        I don’t think I can ever retire. I’ll be one of those people that gets evicted from a nursing home

  • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yes we are making more but compare that shit to cost of living and what we earn. It’s still fuckin trash. It’s like saying the Germans were billionaires during hyperinflation.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Lol please, these people fear death more than anything, they exist wholely within the material. They will spend every last time breathing one more wretched breath. I make a dime, while my boomer and X bosses make millions. Its not even a dollar anymore, I am straight up shafted eith no recourse but to quit and become even more poor.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    4 months ago

    The writer should maybe go and visit some nursing homes. They’ll find a fuckload of poor old people that are most definitely not wealthy.

    • grte@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      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.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.