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> It's more like you may never have what your parents had.

That’s a natural consequence of economic mobility.

It would suck in a different way if everyone always had more than their parents in absolute (inflation-adjusted) amounts and obviously, not everyone can have more in percentile terms.



Except there's more stuff around, and it's increasingly unevenly distributed, not due to disparate effort or ability.



I had some fuzzy concept of wealth inequality in the US, but this is just fucking outrageous.




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