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

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

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Weird it doesn't feel like it.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 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.