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    • Axtremus
      Axtremus last edited by

      https://www.barrons.com/articles/retirement-savings-baby-boomers-51656006852

      ... Less than half of those surveyed have saved $100,000 ... One in six say they have saved nothing. A third are currently making no contributions. ...
      Respondents who are still working, with a median age of 60, have average savings of around $112,000.
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      One quarter of those surveyed, and 30% of millennials, said they were planning to rely on “cryptocurrencies” to finance some of their golden years. ...

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      • Mik
        Mik last edited by

        That may be, but a lot of boomers still have pensions coming. We had both plenty of saving/investments and pensions.

        "Summon scorn until it radiates from your person like a baleful beacon of contempt."

        "I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?" Dave Chappelle

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        • Copper
          Copper last edited by

          Ponzi schemes can work, for a while.

          Although, in the long run, cryptocurrencies will cause a lot more trouble than a simple scam.

          I expect that anyone willing to vote for Joe Biden is capable of falling for a cryptocurrency salesman's pitch. That is a lot of people heading for trouble.

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          • LuFins Dad
            LuFins Dad last edited by

            OTOH, that 50% of people that have saved $100K will find out that it’s only worth the equivalent to $50K by the end of the Biden Administration, so the people that haven’t saved a dime are only $60K behind and have had a lot more fun.

            Me/rry/Christmas

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            • Jolly
              Jolly last edited by

              Save nothing.

              The government will take care of you...

              That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. - Samuel Clemons

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              • taiwan_girl
                taiwan_girl last edited by

                IF that survey tranlsates to the whole population, that is pretty sad.

                ... 30% plan on crypto currency.

                OUCH!!

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                • Jolly
                  Jolly last edited by

                  I think that's about the savings level it's been for quite awhile.

                  How many people do y'all hang out with that make $20/hr or less? Let's say you are a FT employee at Walmart...You're making $18.75/hr, with benefits that include access to decent healthcare insurance, FSA, 401k, employee stock purchase plan and PTO.

                  Without OT, that puts you making $39k/yr, gross.

                  As a single person, how well can you live? How much money can you save?

                  As a married person...Let's say your spouse makes a little better than you, maybe $45k/yr. And our fictional couple have two children, ages 5 and 8. Again, how well can you live? How much money can you save?

                  That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. - Samuel Clemons

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                  • Larry
                    Larry last edited by

                    Create multiple income streams, learn to live on one, and put all the others straight into the bank.

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                    • jon-nyc
                      jon-nyc @Jolly last edited by jon-nyc

                      @Jolly You make good points. Though there are avenues some will pull off to fund their own retirement it’s a simple empirical truth that most people won’t pull it off.

                      That was certainly true for all of human history, during most of which the concept of saving wasn’t even viable (how long could salted meat and root vegetables last, anyway?)

                      So it has always fallen to the younger generation to support the older. That used to happen on a family, tribe, or village level. Increasingly it happens at the level of the nation state.

                      Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat.

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                      • Copper
                        Copper last edited by

                        Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence denies losing $15m NFL signing bonus in crypto crash

                        https://www.the-sun.com/sport/nfl/5614618/jacksonville-jaguars-trevor-lawrence-15m-crypto-nfl/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ussunsport&utm_source=facebook#Echobox=1655900133

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                        • Jolly
                          Jolly @Larry last edited by

                          @Larry said in Another Bleak Retirement Savings Survey:

                          Create multiple income streams, learn to live on one, and put all the others straight into the bank.

                          That's beyond most people.

                          Many times, it takes money to make money.

                          That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. - Samuel Clemons

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                          • 89th
                            89th @taiwan_girl last edited by

                            @taiwan_girl said in Another Bleak Retirement Savings Survey:

                            IF that survey tranlsates to the whole population, that is pretty sad.

                            ... 30% plan on crypto currency.

                            OUCH!!

                            Well i think it said they would rely on crypto to finance "some" of their retirement. Heck in my case, I have less than 1% of my investment portfolio in crypto, but I guess it does finance "some" of my retirement presuming it doesn't go to zero.

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                            • taiwan_girl
                              taiwan_girl @Jolly last edited by

                              @Jolly said in Another Bleak Retirement Savings Survey:

                              Many times, it takes money to make money.

                              This!!

                              I often think of the example. If someone has $1000 USD and gets a 10% return, he makes $100 USD

                              If someone has $1,000,000 and gets a 5% return, he makes $50,000 USD

                              And if that happens year after year..........

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