• Ragdoll X@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well it’s worth noting that teenage boys have started leaning a bit more to the right, likely in large part because of Andrew Tate and others in the manosphere, plus right-wing think-tanks like PragerU targeting schools and kids.

    Though it’s not like the gap between conservative and liberal boys is that big, plus it’s not uncommon to hear from men on the left say that they had a phase of watching Ben Shapiro debate compilations only to grow out of it, so it’s not like this is the end of the world.

    Still, it’s also true that Millennials and Gen X are getting fucked by boomers when it comes to money: Millennials only hold 3% of total US wealth, and that’s a shockingly small sliver of what baby boomers had at their age

    I guess we can only hope that the latter is a stronger motivating factor than reactionary propaganda and efforts to curtail education that are coming from the right.

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      1 year ago

      40-54 year olds were 7-21 years old in 1990. That group had >30% of wealth? I have some doubts about these charts.

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        That’s because you’re reading the chart wrong. It’s showing the change in wealth for those age brackets across time.

        People that were 40 in 1990 had a bigger share of the wealth than people who are 40 in 2020.