I feel like I’m not being clear then: that’s ONLY taking into account the potential interest earned? Touching the principal, you’d be able to go for much longer. This is coming from a place of ignorance and envy as as American with no prospect of being able to save $1 million, ever.

I have received 5% at least the last few years, but even disregarding the last I’m talking about future spending.

Yes that’s the last 30 years though. I’m not talking about past profits, I’m talking about the future. They seem to currently have enough money to secure at least a decade of spending even before taking interest into account.

Could you elaborate on that? At $1 million, that would be your yearly salary for over 13 years. At 5% yearly interest (from something like Discover) would generate $50k/yr. Why would you not be able to retire?

Right, but that specifically is not linking Steven Hale. So your original assertion that he is selling/supporting Russian malware is not substantiated by this article.

Do you have a source for that? This article does not say that at all. It simply says that the person in question ripped Spider-Man Far From Home, that movie specifically was available from a lot of different users and locations, also had some cases where it had dangerous malware packaged, and that could have come from a Russian torrenting site. Nothing links this person directly to that malware or Russians at all.

Thankfully your banjo playing days are finite.