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by MinimalAction4 hours ago |
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upvoteby onlyrealcuzzo4 hours ago|
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Certainly, $1B is a lot of money...

But you probably need >$10M to not HAVE to work and live a low-risk comfortable life in even modestly expensive parts of the US.

The funny thing about money is, it's really hard to save $1M and $10M, but once you get there, it's pretty easy to grow that substantially.

The fundamental problem in the West, IMO, is that we make it so hard to save even small amounts of money, and so easy to compound huge amounts of money (and no the EU is not much better on this front than the US).

It should be the opposite.

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upvoteby MinimalAction3 hours ago|
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$10M is also perhaps asking for too much to live a modest life even without working, but I hear you with rising costs and healthcare. In any case, $10M is 100x smaller than $1B.
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upvoteby tyrust9 minutes ago|
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$10M is a pretty high amount. FIRE numbers top out around $4M and can be as low as $1M.
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upvoteby nunez2 hours ago|
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Why do many Americans feel like they need SUVs? Or huge 3000+ sq. ft. houses? Or five-star luxury vacations to impoverished countries where they barely have to lift a finger?

My take: they don't; nobody does. But when you aren't successful and don't have a lot, and when "success" is marketed to you as "big SUV; fancy big ass house; private jet; fancy vacations", you get trained into think you need much more than you actually do to be happy.

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