@jacobdoesmoney2: 2 people put $10,000 into the same dividend ETF. One clicked reinvest. The assumptions: a 3.5% dividend yield with 7.5% yearly price growth, which is right in line with what the big dividend ETFs have done long term. Neither person ever adds or sells a dollar. The setting is called DRIP, dividend reinvestment, and it's one click in any brokerage. On, your checks buy more shares, and those new shares start paying their own dividends. Off, your share count stays frozen for 45 years. And yes, the spender got to enjoy $116,223 in dividend checks along the way. Add every one of those dollars back and he's still about $843,000 behind. That's the part nobody believes until they see the table. Follow for more investing math like this.

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Wednesday 12 August 2026 22:18:24 GMT