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by antisthenes 967 days ago
How many people can actually pay $2000/month just from their index fund returns without drawing on the principal?

Even if you assume 4% real return (beating inflation), you'd need to have at least 600k worth of index funds, and you won't be growing it. Even for HN users, that's a lot of money.

This strategy will never work for more than 1-2% of the population.

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A quarter of households have net worths greater than $600,000. https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator/