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Old 09-27-2025, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest View Post
If you earn 250k per year for 20 years or 167k per year for 30 years you will have earned the 5 million for your American dream. With earnings from sales of real estate and possible income from sale of a business it seems like something that can be acheived.
That's assuming you spend $0 on things such as food, clothing, shelter, utilities, cellular service, transportation, property tax, income tax, or anything else.

I mean I suppose you can do that, if you have someone else to pay all your bills and buy you all your needs for 20 years.