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by ndand 1377 days ago
Not for the rest of their lives. 50 people can live on $100k/year for 20 years.
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if you assume typical stock market returns, ~$2M is enough to retire on and live on $100k a year of interest gained alone.
Assuming you are using recent interest rates. If you mix in recent inflation rates too it doesn't work out in inflation-adjusted dollars like that, though hopefully a lot of that is transitory from covid (or maybe we have something worse than covid in the future).