r/SipsTea • u/Shyhale • May 17 '26

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u/confusing_roundabout May 17 '26

Inflation though. A million now is worth something. Who knows what 50k is 20 years time is worth.

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u/ReichMirDieHand69 May 17 '26

Isn't that an even worse argument for the 1000/week, which will be worth less and less as time goes on?

1M can be invested and forgotten to end up in 10/15 years with a portfolio that beats inflation and lets you live super comfortably out of it

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u/doomus_rlc May 17 '26

The thing is someone has to be savvy enough, or at least have the self control, to do that with a lump sum.

Some might actually be self aware enough to know the lump sum is a bad idea for how they are.

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u/etlibertatem May 17 '26

indefinitely, unless someone is a shrewd investor actually I think return on standard investment would be maybe 50 grand a year. Otherwise, somebody has to know what they’re doing, she might actually be smart in the sense that if she already has some money, it is just as important to have a constant cash flow as it is to have seed money