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Spend enough time on social media, and you’ll see some variant of the meme: a video of older people line dancing or partying to a rap song, with a caption like, “Boomers after finding out the home they bought in 1973 for two pennies and a handshake is valued at $3 million” or “Boomers selling their homes for $2 million after buying them in 1969 for 7 raspberries.”