Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But as Kuttner points out, there's another, more important point to be made about ...
But as Kuttner points out, there's another, more important point to be made about inequality in America - the most significant wealth gap in America is between workers and owners, not young people and old people. The "average" Boomer's net worth factors in the wealth of Warren Buffett and Donald Trump. Older renters are *more* rent-burdened and precarious than younger renters, and most older Americans have little to no retirement savings:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2023/10/28/the-new-york-times-greedy-geezer-myth/11/
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