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> > Granted, those under 40 are still the poorest of the generations.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED that generations that had more time to accumulate wealth has more wealth accumulated!

This entire subthread is missing the premise of the article. It's looking at the percentage of total wealth held by each age interval, and seeing how that percentage changed, which was in favor of the youngest. It's not just saying that older people have more, that's obvious and expected and still true.

I'm kind of surprised that on average Americans continue to accumulate more wealth than debt. I'd prefer to be seeing median numbers to totals per generation.

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