• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Unless you’re talking about FIRE, no: the oldest millennials are in their early 40s and have two decades to go before traditional retirement age.

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        2 months ago

        If you’re that 1% super elite CS student, then sure you can retire at forty. The rest can’t even if they are child free.

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        2 months ago

        That’d probably only work if you met your SO immediately when you began working, and you both had the same money plan.

        Otherwise it’s probably not enough saved money to support 2 people, only 1 (edit until the later 40s)

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            2 months ago

            If you do it over 20 years absolutely it can be done.

            But to do that and retire in your early 40’s (40-43.33) as you suggest means people will need to likely meet in highschool or early college and work on it right away once they start earning income.

            Unless people happen to create a similar plan 20 years prior and are able to find each other many years into their plans. It is possible, but it’s harder.

            edit: changed the perspective to people, not specifically you.