The biggest problem with this article is that the data in their core graph[1] doesn't actually match up with their claims.
The biggest problem with this article is that the data in their core graph[1] doesn't actually match up with their claims. What that graph shows is what families were worth over a 14 year periods for a bunch of cohorts. And the data makes... a pretty smooth graph. There's lots of overlap and no obvious discontinuities, and no reason at all to think that there's any change in trend over time. The only apparent effect that even possibly shows that younger people are worse off comes in the last two data points of each young person's line. But that's a totally obvious artifact, because that's the 2008 recession, which was the worst event of the 1989-2013 period graphed. (The 2000 dot-com bust was not nearly as huge.) EVERYONE'S line goes down at that time, including the oldest cohorts. If the graph had more data, and showed what the 1901 cohort were like at age 31 (in the throes of the Great Depression), it would almost certainly be obvious that those 2008-driven dips aren't especially bad, comparatively. And yet, that's the old-person generation that is supposed to be the envy of the young. This is just terrible interpretation of some unsurprising data. [1] https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
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The biggest problem with this article is that the data in their core graph[1] doesn't actually match up with their claims.
The biggest problem with this article is that the data in their core graph[1] doesn't actually match up with their claims. What that graph shows is what families were worth over a 14 year periods for a bunch of cohorts. And the data makes... a pretty smooth graph. There's lots of overlap and no obvious discontinuities, and no reason at all to think that there's any change in trend over time. The only apparent effect that even possibly shows that younger people are worse off comes in the last two data points of each young person's line. But that's a totally obvious artifact, because that's the 2008 recession, which was the worst event of the 1989-2013 period graphed. (The 2000 dot-com bust was not nearly as huge.) EVERYONE'S line goes down at that time, including the oldest cohorts. If the graph had more data, and showed what the 1901 cohort were like at age 31 (in the throes of the Great Depression), it would almost certainly be obvious that those 2008-driven dips aren't especially bad, comparatively. And yet, that's the old-person generation that is supposed to be the envy of the young. This is just terrible interpretation of some unsurprising data. [1] https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
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