• tomiant@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Impressive scam! Simple, and they got €1 mil out of it before being discovered. If they were smart, which I will assume they weren’t, they could have that money in an offshore account and couldn’t be taken back by authorities. They’d maybe do some time or probation, then they could comfortably fuck off and live low key in some tropical third world country for the rest of their days if they budgeted well.

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      1 day ago

      Need more than just a million to retire comfortably. Though, I guess if you did it on the cheap in a less developed country, it might be possible.

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        10 hours ago

        That truly depends on what you mean by “comfortably”. You can very easily survive the rest of your life “comfortably” on $1 million. Unless your definition of “comfort” includes a bunch of bullshit that you don’t actually need and arguably makes your life worse for you and shorter just because you’ve grown accustomed to it.

        $1M is plenty.

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          9 hours ago

          If you want to own a house and a car in a developed country, with property taxes, insurance, house repairs, car repairs etc etc etc, $1M won’t cut it. If it was, I would have retired years ago.