For comparison, Gen X had 9% of the wealth, and Boomers had 21%. The largest generation in history did everything they were told, became the most educated generation, and now they're the poorest.

Here are the official numbers from the fed for millennial wealth

  • https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#range:1989.3,2020.4;quarter:125;series:Net%20worth;demographic:generation;population:1,3,5,7;units:shares

Zuckerburg owns a very large amount of Facebook stock, and he sells it on a pre-determined, fixed, schedule. The current amount of stock he has is around $80 billion.

To find out how much he’s sold on what schedule, the easiest answer is Yahoo Meta, insider transactions: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/insider-transactions?p=META

You can also look at the their 2022 proxy report official in Meta SEC filings https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680122000043/meta2022definitiveproxysta.htm

Zuckerburg has 93,675,733 vested shares, 831,706 class A shares, and 349,745,790 class B shares a total of 350,577,496 shares (we don’t care about voting rights, just valuation). At today’s market value, those shares are worth $296.73 each (October 30, 2023). We multiple those numbers together and get $104,026,860,388.08.

So, that rounds to $104 billion dollars in Meta stock.

Finally, he controls additional shares via Chan Zuckerberg foundation, Mark Zuckerberg Trust, and assorted other groups.

  • Buttermilk@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Most people misunderstand this stat, it is not that half of all wealth is Zuck, it's that 2% of that 4% is his.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      If I had a dollar for every time someone misunderstood percentages, I'd have 2% of all gen Z wealth

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      2% of the combined wealth of 75 million people is a whole fucking lot. One dude with as much money as 1.5 million average income millennials combined

      • Buttermilk@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Completely agree, and it's obscene that this weird creep that made a stalking app for this college can now push industries with how much money he has in this amorphous value. But I just hope that people can be angry at these facts without being lost in a misunderstanding and think that half of all millennial wealth is one guy.

      • Buttermilk@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        This is also true, just makes folks look silly when they think that half of all millennial wealth is one guy.