• EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    1 year ago

    Zuckerberg himself is a massive percentage of total millennial wealth alone.

    Zuckerberg is more than half of all Millennial wealth and savings. If you remove Zuck from the statistics, the average net worth of a millennial is around negative $40,000.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I feel Zuckerberg is a great example of why looking at wealth generationally is nonsense. Are you richer because Zuckerberg is close to your age

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        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I am not claiming they had the same opportunities than us I am claiming that them having things better than us economically and us having things worse off is the result of factors completely out of the control of most people of either generation and therefore not responsible and therefore not to blame

          • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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            The thing that you're leaving out is the very real factor that boomer-brained people and capitalist society don't share the view that no ones responsible or to blame. And their conclusion is that their children are to blame for the world they actively benefited from and helped create. Not all boomer-aged people are equal in this equation (or younger groups), but boomer-brained people think the way they do because they benefited from that world order, they believe in that world order, and they gleefully clapped and supported the ladder being kicked away so their children couldn't climb it. Boomers don't need defending

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            • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              yeah I agree it is insufferable to have someone lecture you on success when they got their success due to relative luck.

              It doesn't make sense to ascribe qualities like that to generational groups though as they aren't an institution that sets member policy they are a marketting demographic.

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                • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  the news media finds the assholes in any demographic doesn't it. Millenials who are super into blockchain similarly get excessively platformed

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