Originally Posted by
CX500T
This is based off maxing out 401k and 9.5% return
That 6M will be worth $3.5M if current long-term inflation stays the same.
How do you outperform inflation by about 6% a year and wind up with about half of your money due to inflation?
Unless I'm misunderstanding , It appears you make it sound like you will be barely scraping by due to inflation. But if your investments are beating inflation,you will be better off, regardless of what the numbers are.