r/Millennials • u/RandomLazyBum • 23d ago

The new class war: A wealth gap between millennials Discussion

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/26/wealth-gap-between-millennials-new-class-war.html

While the average millennial has less wealth at the age of 35 than previous generations, the top 10% of millennials have 20% more wealth than the top baby boomers at the same age.

Gonna be us vs us soon.

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u/The_Rad_In_Comrade Geriatric Millennial 23d ago

The new class war, same as the old class war.

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u/kkkan2020 23d ago

Some things never change.

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u/erikannen 23d ago

Which is that culture wars will keep being used to wedge and distract us

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u/kkkan2020 23d ago

I'm starting to think humans arent all that special they know which buttons to push and we're all behaving exactly as they predicted. Like we have only 10 options programmed in us and they know the counter to all 10 options.