Re:$6.96B was raised by private longevity companies in 2022
by staticman2 on Friday January 27, 2023 @09:29PM
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"20-25x your annual living expenses will allow you to live off the interest indefinitely"
That isn't a rule of thumb for an infinite lifespan. It's probably not even a rule of thumb for surviving retirement from 1928 through 1938.
7% compound interest is a wacky assumption considering over the last 122 years global equity has returned real returns of 5.3%.
Of course this assumes that the economic system remains reasonably unchanged. It's possible that once we're all living such long lives and everyone has had enough time to build up large amounts of wealth that patterns of consumption and growth will be significantly different. But that said, the current expectation that people save up for retirement or die destitute is really a product of our current system and would likely change as well.