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		Dylan16807 on Jan 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I no longer trust The Great Suspender There's a big difference between retirement money and day-job money, which applies both to this and the joke.

hinkley on Jan 21, 2021 [–]

In the joke, $1m was offered. I don't know when he made that joke, but since he died in 1948, that's somewhere over $15m now. And houses were ridiculously cheap by modern standards, so that would have been retirement money for sure.

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