• elrik@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Not really with that amount of time. Suppose you put away $1,000 a year for 532 years, at 3% you still end up with $225 billion.

    The deposits are completely dwarfed by the compounding interest. If you only start with $1,000 and add nothing else but let that original $1,000 compound at 4% you’ll have over $1 trillion.

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      8 hours ago

      Where are you getting 4% annual compound returns, though? That’s faster than the historical growth in global GDP over the equivalent time period.