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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 23 2019, @12:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the would-you-like-fries-with-that? dept.

More than half of American millennials, the generation of people born between 1981 and 1996, believe that they will one day be millionaires; one in five think they will get there by the age of 40. These are the findings from a survey conducted in 2018 by TD Ameritrade, a financial-services company.

But a working paper by the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, offers a sobering antidote to this youthful optimism. It finds that millennials are less wealthy than people of a similar age were in any year from 1989 to 2007. The economic crisis of 2008-09 hit millennials particularly hard. Median household wealth in 2016 for 20- to 35-year-olds was about 25% lower than it was for the similar-aged cohort in 2007.

[...] But all is not lost. Millennials are living longer and are the best-educated generation in history. Taken together, this could yet mean that the youngest millennials, who have been less scarred by the crisis, could contribute towards their retirement pots for longer. Then there is mum and dad: even if they don’t become millionaires, millennials will one day inherit from their parents, and that may help redress their relative poverty.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @01:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @01:58AM (#834156)

    It shouldn't include health care, dental care and pension because those should be independent of your employment.
    Tying them to your job is just another way the system is designed to make it hard for you to quit. The harder it is to quit, the closer your job is to slavery.

    Freelance - Those three are all your responsibility and you automatically quit at the end of each project.
    Salary / Wage - System ties them to your job to make it hard to quit but still legal.
    Slave - Don't have the right to quit.

    Decoupling healthcare and pensions from your job is a step towards freedom, which is why it is resisted by the entrenched powers.

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