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so big it changes who gets born, not just who gets rich.
means describing something whose scale or impact spans decades, resetting the baseline for everyone who comes after.
from from latin generatio, a begetting or producing; the word jumped from biology to finance and culture once people needed a way to say once in 25 years without saying it.
finance flexwall street uses it to mean once-per-career wealth
trauma toosame word describes inherited pain, not just inherited money
vague on purposeno fixed number of years, just implied enormity
for instance
lebron james draft — 2003 pick called generational before playing a single nba minute
covid-19 pandemic — reshaped schooling and work for kids born 2000-2015