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Millennial says boomers have it backward when they talk about wasting money on 'luxuries'

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Freddie Smith , 36 , of Orlando , Florida , recently went viral on TikTok for a video in which he challenged the boomer argument with statistics from the Bureau of Labor , Federal Reserve , and the U.S. Census Bureau .

Smith believes that the older generations misunderstand millennial finances because their concept of luxury is based on 1980s economics.

For a person in the '80s to own three TVs, a CD player, a cellphone, a microwave, and a computer, it would cost them 3.5 years of rent or a 20% downpayment on the average home.

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informal

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English

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54

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