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   Pappy to Webbster   
   Re: What Percent of Retirees Have $1 Mil   
   22 Dec 25 04:17:49   
   
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   From: pappy053025@usenot.nil   
      
   On 12/21/2025 12:02 PM, Webbster wrote:   
   > "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in   
   > news:10i9hvg$2vk52$1@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> "a425couple"  wrote in message   
   >> news:PiU1R.160904$79B9.28240@fx14.iad...   
   >>   
   >> from   
   >> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/guess-percent-retirees-1-million-1801055   
   >> 50.html   
   >>   
   >> Can You Guess What Percent of Retirees Have $1 Million Saved? Here's   
   >> The Average Net Worth Of People 65 and Up   
   >> ----------------------   
   >>   
   >> As the article hints in the TL:DR section after the sensationalist   
   >> intro, estimates vary widely depending on what is counted. The high   
   >> end is 15% - 20% millionaires. Financial advisors are interested only   
   >> in paper holdings they might benefit from, while total asset value   
   >> including real estate is what matters when someone finally goes into a   
   >> nursing home.   
   >>   
   >> https://earlyretirementnow.com/2023/12/03/we-are-all-millionaires/   
   >> "So, I was surprised that more than 18%(!) of households were   
   >> millionaires in 2022."   
   >>   
   >> Billionaires got there by recognizing and selling us what we demanded.   
   >> The Left demonizes success to justify confiscating (stealing) what   
   >> they envy but lack the ability to acquire themselves. That's why they   
   >> are so desperate for political power and horrified by its loss. Most   
   >> Dems were willing to sacrifice SNAP for the needy to their greed for   
   >> power.   
   >>   
   >> If you hate the rich stop consuming their products. Grow beyond   
   >> childish dependency, become self-supporting, contribute to instead of   
   >> draining from society. Socialism offers only a reverse Ponzi scheme in   
   >> which everyone else also depends on you.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   other sources cite...   
   If that is true, it will be simple for you to cite the other sources,   
   like the previous posters have done to support their claims. Can you do   
   that?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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