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For comparison, Gen X had 9% of the wealth, and Boomers had 21%. The largest generation in history did everything they were told, became the most educated generation, and now they're the poorest.

Here are the official numbers from the fed for millennial wealth

Zuckerburg owns a very large amount of Facebook stock, and he sells it on a pre-determined, fixed, schedule. The current amount of stock he has is around $80 billion.

To find out how much he’s sold on what schedule, the easiest answer is Yahoo Meta, insider transactions: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/insider-transactions?p=META

You can also look at the their 2022 proxy report official in Meta SEC filings https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680122000043/meta2022definitiveproxysta.htm

Zuckerburg has 93,675,733 vested shares, 831,706 class A shares, and 349,745,790 class B shares a total of 350,577,496 shares (we don’t care about voting rights, just valuation). At today’s market value, those shares are worth $296.73 each (October 30, 2023). We multiple those numbers together and get $104,026,860,388.08.

So, that rounds to $104 billion dollars in Meta stock.

Finally, he controls additional shares via Chan Zuckerberg foundation, Mark Zuckerberg Trust, and assorted other groups.

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[–] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 104 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Most people misunderstand this stat, it is not that half of all wealth is Zuck, it's that 2% of that 4% is his.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I had a dollar for every time someone misunderstood percentages, I'd have 2% of all gen Z wealth

[–] TornadoRex@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not much but it's strange that it happened 20 times.

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd have 2% of all gen Z wealth

depending on where in the world you live that might buy you a gallon of gas

Mark Zuckerberg can afford multiple gallons of gas

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand it very well. My generation doesn't have shit.

[–] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

This is also true, just makes folks look silly when they think that half of all millennial wealth is one guy.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2% of the combined wealth of 75 million people is a whole fucking lot. One dude with as much money as 1.5 million average income millennials combined

[–] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Completely agree, and it's obscene that this weird creep that made a stalking app for this college can now push industries with how much money he has in this amorphous value. But I just hope that people can be angry at these facts without being lost in a misunderstanding and think that half of all millennial wealth is one guy.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah he's rich as fuck but he's not a trillionaire

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most well educated baristas, shelf stockers, and call center workers in history.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

fidel-salute and every one braver than the troops

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When we do these wealth calculations, do we include debt? I would say the majority of my friends have negative wealth (tbf, a self selecting group of overeducated underemployed people)

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Debt is usually not included as far as I know, and that makes the situation worse. Looks like typical debt in US is around 90k https://www.cnbc.com/select/average-american-debt-by-age/

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

wtf. Does no one have a savings account anymore? Even the boomers?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dad is a early millenial in his late 50s. I guess it does make a difference if I inform you that I'm from India. He has only ₹4 lacs in his bank account. I have ₹7k in mine. Neither my mother, nor my sibling has a bank account. Ask me how we live our daily life. We don't - we survive. Better to just ingest rat poison and die that to live any longer.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That is rough comrade :(

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

we live in a sick world

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

And it's hovered around that level for a long while. :(

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder what Gen-Z's gonna be like. No companies founded by my generation so far

[–] riskable@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Founding a company is easy: Do you have $150? You too can own a Florida corporation today (literally, within minutes).

I'm sure there's tens of thousands of LLCs and S corporations owned by Gen Z. They're just things like lawn care services, handyman, independent contractors, etc.

They may not be huge or popular or famous but I guarantee that there's a lot of them. Because there's far too many jobs that require you have a registered business and thousands of young people have these jobs.

[–] Tak@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Small businesses don't have enough employees to underpay to give yourself millions of dollars for their labor.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wrong! Zillions of Amazon delivery drivers are underpaid independent contractors with their own corporations.

What year do you think this is? These days corporations are good at exploiting FTE workers, workers who own their own business, and other, smaller corporations.

[–] Tak@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you implying that Amazon is a small business?

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The delivery drivers are small businesses! Yes. 100% absolutely that is what I'm saying.

[–] Tak@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

But none of those small businesses are paying their execs 20 million dollar salaries.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm true, just no flashy multi billion dollar startups so far (we're all probably still too inexperienced for that)

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[–] sapphiria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can we please not platform the wife torturing rapist?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

updated to just provide the data

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[–] AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are now 41, 42, and 43 year old millennials too.

[–] Ransom@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Holy shit indeed!

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Wow! Wife beater is back.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imma need a source for those numbers.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

here are the official numbers from the fed for millennial wealth, it's actually lower at 4.4%

Zuckerburg owns a very large amount of Facebook stock, and he sells it on a pre-determined, fixed, schedule. The current amount of stock he has is around $80 billion.

To find out how much he’s sold on what schedule, the easiest answer is Yahoo Meta, insider transactions: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/insider-transactions?p=META

You can also look at the their 2022 proxy report official in Meta SEC filings https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680122000043/meta2022definitiveproxysta.htm

Zuckerburg has 93,675,733 vested shares, 831,706 class A shares, and 349,745,790 class B shares a total of 350,577,496 shares (we don’t care about voting rights, just valuation). At today’s market value, those shares are worth $296.73 each (October 30, 2023). We multiple those numbers together and get $104,026,860,388.08.

So, that rounds to $104 billion dollars in Meta stock.

Finally, he controls additional shares via Chan Zuckerberg foundation, Mark Zuckerberg Trust, and assorted other groups.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant for the various generations.

What about when adjusted for demographic weight? Because I remember reading that millennials had the highest median net worth of all current generations.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first link literally shows a graph of wealth distribution over time.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (26 children)

It doesn't go back before 1989, at which point boomers were 40 to 44 and a much bigger % of the population compared to the small % of the population of millennials that are 40 to 42 at the moment.

That's what the OP implies, if you're comparing wealth at the same point in life that graphic isn't the info you're looking for.

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