How much passive income to stop?

If you were to invest in stocks, real estate, physical businesses (with limited time input), etc. how much money would you want to be making and value of assets that you would be content with and could stop and enjoy at any time if you chose to do so?

I’m mad young but I want to get to a spot in the future where I just never worry, what do those numbers look like for you?

For me, maybe, $25M value, with $250k in perpetuity

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Just the S&P alone will yield 2% lol with no work, it’s terrible. You can probably switch to slightly higher yielding ~3% with a tad lower appreciation and still appreciate nicely 

 

Agreed. Taking a 250k distribution from your nest egg, meaning you aren’t really planning on saving or investing any of that money, is an insane amount of passive income. Plus, by the time anyone has that stream coming in, their house + vacation house should be more than paid off, kids should be through college etc. I don’t think I could ever spend that much money in a year outside of big-time purchases. Most people have happy and fulfilling retirements with a fraction of $250k

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