• BanMe@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I’m a millennial with a house but no retirement savings, and the WSJ tells me the average millennial has over $1m in retirement assets now, so fuck y’all and your privilege. (I’m just kidding, I know you’re poor too)

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      5 hours ago

      Is that the median or mean average? The worse that inequality is the more it distorts mean averages and the less it tells you about the majority.

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      15 hours ago

      Love all those articles that are like “By 30 you should be saving and have this much for retirement by now…”

      Like lol the car made a funny noise, $100 doesn’t even hope to fill a grocery cart, and we’re enjoying yet another “unprecedented” planned financial crisis in our lifetimes, what do you want from me here.

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      18 hours ago

      Mate, there is no chance the average millennial has over $1m in retirement assets. The average Gen X doesn’t have that much and we have been working a lot longer.