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$2M. I could live off that for the rest of my life if I invested wisely and lived frugally, and I'm pretty good at both. I'd live on a sailboat and work on software that there's absolutely no money in, like DragonflyBSD, Wayland, Enlightenment, Haiku, etc. It would be relaxing and fulfilling to be an artist instead of a capitalist.

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Yep. $2 million sounds right. I might consider semi-retirement on less, but it would depend on the details. $2 million should be enough that I don't need to worry too much about the details.

Why can't you do that with $1M?

The boat!

Depends on the boat! A friend of mine just bought a beautiful 38' sailboat to live aboard. It was less than $90k.

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