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by eligottlieb 5226 days ago
If you made $250k and lived off $50k/year, after taxes and about 6 or 7 years you'd have $1 million in the bank. After 10 years you'd definitely have enough to generate a perpetual income from your invested wealth.

But that's, again, different from STRIKING IT RICH(TM).