• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Average investment returns are (conservatively) 8% per year, with a safe draw down being 4% per year. Which means she can safely withdraw $40,000/yr indefinitely without her investment decreasing in value over the long run.

    Easily enough to retire in a decent cost of living area if she wishes, or work a small side job to boost her income to support a higher cost of living.

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      The safe withdraw for an extended early retirement is 3.5%

      With 4%, while the chance is small, you could end up running out of money.

      Someone did all the numbers for 35-40+ years looking back historically, and there were 4 or 5 years where if you started then and didn’t adjust your plan, you’d run out of cash.

      There were 0 scenarios where 3.5% ran out

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      Especially considering she was making $42k annually as a teacher (according to another comment, I didn’t actually read the article). So she was able to live on roughly that amount already.

      Realistically, she could continue to create OnlyFans content for some time and make and invest more than the initial $1m.