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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:12PM (#25850581)
There's a big difference between retirement money and day-job money, which applies both to this and the joke.
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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by hinkley on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:58PM (#25861850)
In the joke, $1m was offered. I don't know when he made that joke, but since he died in 1948, that's somewhere over $15m now. And houses were ridiculously cheap by modern standards, so that would have been retirement money for sure.
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