If the only way you can call Millennials “wealthy” is by ignoring student loan debt and the housing crisis and pretending that being automatically enrolled in an employer-sponsored program is an indication of high success, then maybe you shouldn’t pitch that article.

— Alex Brown 🐀 (@QueenOfRats) June 24, 2021

I’ve been seeing a spate of these articles lately that are like, “Millennials are just as wealthy as Boomers were at the same age, as long as you don’t count student debt, housing costs, and health care costs!” And they write that as if it that makes any sort of sense at all.

That I’ve seen so many of these pieces and claims is a sign that there is probably some sort of semi-coordinated propaganda operation underway. I’m not sure from where, exactly, or why, but just FYI you don’t see that many articles appear at the same time in the mainstream press without some think tank or other org spewing out press releases en masse and hoping outlets do the barest rewrites and then publish them.

That anyone believes that balderdash is amazing, but the think tanks wouldn’t do that if it did not work.