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Re:Early Retirement (2006) by brianwawok on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:45AM (#28062372)
So if you don't invest, do you just save money in a savings account? Over a 50 year career S&P Index Fund vs stuff in a savings account is the different between... having 20k a year to pull from savings, vs having 100k a year to pull from investments. It's a pretty stark portfolio difference.
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Re:Early Retirement (2006) by throwaway894345 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:13PM (#28062745)
Ironically if you put the money in a savings account, someone much richer than you is going to be investing it on your behalf and taking the lion's share of the interest that you're leaving on the table.
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Re:Early Retirement (2006) by brianwawok on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:31PM (#28064495)
Right. Can't really escape the game.
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