There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
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Can I have $347,000?
Younger Americans had more average household wealth at age 34 than Boomers did at the same age.
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The chart shows average (mean) wealth of households headed by each generation at ~age 34, skewed by wealthy outliers. Median wealth at similar ages was comparable across generations per SCF data; fewer young adults heading households biases recent figures upward for them.
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2026:
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
How It Is by Samuel Beckett
There's a direct proportional relationship between the number of times you've read this phrase in jobs listings and the degree to which you are completely fucked
What really struck me this time was Kafka's sensitivity to unconscious cruelty in social dynamics. For example, the second that K. senses his superiority to Block, he becomes as sadistic, and as a consequence as defensively vain, as any inhabitant of the law courts
