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Sure, but the reason for that isn’t that they simply haven’t lived long enough to accure wealth. Younger generational cohorts have less than their parents did at the same age.


I think this can also be split by class and background to provide further clarity. For example, every single one of my classmates (we were all lower income people) and myself are head and shoulders above where our parents were at our age or at about the save level with us facing significantly less work and stress to get here. I have a feeling middle-income and upper-income people have seen something different than us.


At that point, there’s a reversion to the mean too. If your parents got lucky, you probably won’t be as lucky. If your parents got unlucky, you probably won’t be as unlucky. And luck aside, you’re still going to be (on average) closer to average than your parents.




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