• Panamalt@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      When the people that actually need and deserve money start getting something, then we can call it news

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          15 days ago

          I think 500,000 of them isn’t particularly noteworthy. Also, 401k does not necessarily imply hard work, especially when the result is $ > 1m.

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            14 days ago

            Seems like a lot people to me. And that seems like a nice 401K to me. And I am someone who is retired and I live off much less than that just fine.

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              14 days ago

              500,000 / 70,000,000 (# of Americans with 401k according ChatGPT’s internet search) = ~0.007143

              500,000 / 170,000,000 (# of Americans eligible for a 401k, insert ChatGPT salt warning here) = ~0.002941

              Roughly 0.7% of Americans that have a 401k are millionaires according to this article. Out of all the Americans that could have a 401k, its only about 0.3%. Statistically speaking, effectively nobody is getting a million dollars just by having a 401k. If they are, it is almost certainly because they have a particularly high income or a job with highly competitive benefits, aka. they are already in a much higher socioeconomic class than pretty much every other working American will ever be allowed to achieve in this country.