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  • Help me understand your logic because I’m making assumptions here. I’m just picking one of your examples but how could you not afford to retire and have a family with a nest egg of 5 million?

    My logic says 5 million invested in low cost index funds and following the 4% rule gives me about a $200,000 annual salary. I’ve earned that salary before and it gave me over 10k in monthly cash which paid for my city apartment, brand new car, and I had plenty of money to travel, eat out, and support a partner and still enough to invest and fill up my 401k. I’d have even more money left over not investing. I get kids are expensive but plenty of people live off less than that and have decent family lives. So maybe I’m just being ignorant somewhere in my thoughts process.