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Avocado toast is out. Rotisserie chicken is in. (infosec.pub)

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I could eat for free for the next 50 years and still not be able to buy a home

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Are you sure? If we assume you saved 10 USD per day on food, that means you can invest 3,650 per year. If you do that for 50 years and assume 5% interests, you end up at 844,182.20 USD.

Inflation has been ignored to simplify it a bit, but it works in both directions: your money is worth less than today, but over time, as food is getting more expensive, you also save more and more money per day.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Excellent! Now I just have to sort out the eating for free part and I'm all set!

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

And live to 120 so you actually get to live in the house for awhile..

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

I know some excellent public apple trees if you're in Germany one day. :P

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Houses are rising at 15% a year dude.

[–] krank55@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not really realistic for my hometown at least. I don't know any bank offering interest on saving deposits that is higher than 3%.

If I only didn't have to spend money on food and would save like 5000€ per year while earning the average salary in my town with 3% interest (which is already pretty optimistic) I'd have like 500,000€ in 50 years. While an average house would cost several million at that time (rn it's ~1 million €). I couldn't even buy a flat.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah big banks in canada give like 0.1% interest, my credit union gives 0.3%

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

And also then have fees.....