CircumcisedClown
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>Time in the market always beats timing the market
How much money you have is highly variable from person to person, but time is very linear. You’ve got about 85 years tops for any given person. Any year you’re not using to build money, you’re losing, and most people waste the first 20 because they’re dumb children with retard parents.
So the legality of setting up a Roth IRA for your kids is tricky, so is this is mostly a thought experiment, but since there’s a lot of investment accounts you can set up for a child, it’s a helpful one. The Roth IRA just kinda simplifies things since it’s tax advantageous.
Roth IRA Calculator | Bankrate
Bankrate.com provides a FREE Roth IRA calculator and other 401k calculators to help consumers determine the best option for retirement savings.
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The maximum yearly contribution for a Roth IRA is currently $6,000 yearly and soon to increase, but the calculator I found will only let me use $5,500 since that was a previous cap.
So, using the calculator with a marginal tax rate of 25% (this would be somewhere in the ballpark of above $100k yearly tax bracket depending on your state and other factors), what would happen if your parents maxed a Roth IRA account for you from the day you were born until you were 21 yrs old.
>25% tax rate (this shouldn’t affect your contribution since you’re maxing)
>$5,500 a year
>9% interest rate (this is very reasonable if not below ideal)
>$0 starting balance
>From 1 yrs old to 21 yrs old
By the time you’re 21 yrs old, you’d have $300k off $110k in contributions by your parents. This might not seem obscene, but there is absolutely no way to replicate the snowball affect of already having a baseline of $300k in a Roth at 21 yrs old. It’s mathematically impossible given that there is a yearly cap on contributions.
$110k invested in your future isn’t unreasonable over the course of 21 yrs. This would be very attainable for the average upper middle class family.
So what would you have at 65 yrs old if you kept it going with the max contributions? You’d have $16mil dollars. 5 times the lifetime earnings of an average American. At which point you can start withdrawing from your retirement and give whatever you don’t use when you die (because you literally do not need that much to live through retirement) to your own kids who hopefully already have their own accounts.
What would those kids get when you die at 90 yrs old? They’d inherit an account around $142mil.
Capital + time outperforms labor everytime. This is the life you could have if you weren’t born into a family with a retarded boomerheaded grandfather. You’d be sitting on 150 million dollars. And guess what? The total actual contributions would only be about $400k, the price of a tiny home now.