• Broken@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    You can, if you can. I think most people can’t do that though.

    The better lesson would be to teach compound interest. Somebody that invests $2k every year for 10 years and then stops will have more money than somebody who starts in year 11 and does so for the rest of their life.

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      22 days ago

      That’s sort of the point I was trying to make with an example, but it appears it fell flat. Compound interest and resisting lifestyle inflation, can really help people in the long-run.