To make more money from investing than working you need a whole lot of savings. If by some miracle you can make 10% a year long term (and you haven't been poach

To make more money from investing than working you need a whole lot of savings. If by some miracle you can make 10% a year long term (and you haven't been poached by a hedge fund yet), and you need 100 k to live, that means you need to have more than a million in the bank ("more", because you want to compensate for inflation as well).