Mewcel said:
1 million is more than enough. Say you get 5% yield a year. That's 50k that you can live off.
That is absolute cope. You're not taking inflation into account. Let's calculate this correctly:
5% yearly nominal rate and 3% inflation rate gives you a real rate of return of 1.942% which means you actually make $19,420 in one year from your $1m investment.
You also have to pay the government their cut. If you're in Ontario and you pull in $50k earnings, you have to pay $5267 federal tax and $2733 provincial tax.
Subtract that from $19,420 and you have $11,420 earnings a year. Which means to live at $50k/year you will BLEED $38.58k from that ONE million a year. What this means is that you will be BANKRUPT after 26 years.
That's right, you only make $11,420 PER YEAR on a ONE MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT at FIVE PERCENT RETURN RATE. And it's even WORSE than this because the government LIES about the inflation rate. The actual inflation rate is close to 10% per year, if you calculate it with this number you'll find out you are actually bleeding money and will be bankrupt MUCH sooner than 26 years.
LOL.