# The Great Wealth Transfer... Won't Change Anything (probably) | How Money Works

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Published: 2026-07-06T17:21:00+00:00
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The Great Wealth Transfer... Won't Change Anything (probably) The first 500 people to use my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare https://skl.sh/howmoneyworks07241 Sign up for our FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/ Books we recommend - https://howmoneyworkslibrary.com/ My Other Channel: @howhistoryworks Edited By: Svibe Multimedia Studio Music Courtesy of: Epidemic Sound Select Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images For sponsorship inquiries, please contact sponsors@worksmedia.group Sign up for our newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈 All materials in these videos are for educational purposes only and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. This video does not provide investment or financial advice of any kind. #wealth #finance #realestate ---- In the coming decades, the wealthiest generation in history will… die. It’s an unfortunate albeit inevitable fact of life… but baby boomers will eventually go extinct, and they will pass down over ninety TRILLION dollars [$90,000,000,000] to the next generation within America ALONE. This much money COULD fix a lot of problems like student debt, unaffordable housing, inadequate retirement savings and record credit card debt. BUT don’t get too excited just yet, because at best the great wealth transfer is a financial illusion, and it could actually just end up making things worse… Baby boomers are the wealthiest generation in history. In America they control half of the nation's wealth according to the 2024 wealth report prepared by the property management company Knight Frank. Other sources estimate that baby boomers only hold a mere seventy-eight trillion dollars [$78,000,000,000] in assets That difference of 12 trillion dollars is due to what you really define as w…

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