You need to increase your after-tax cash flow by over 7.1% a year just to keep up with average US Dollar inflation.

Investing in S&P 500 only gives an annual 2.7% real return after adjusting for US Dollar inflation. There is obviously a lot of risk involved to pursue that 2.7%.

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