The question's whether 20 years of a "competitive" tech salary is enough money to retire. I think one must have a very-skewed, bubble-bound definition of "comp

The question's whether 20 years of a "competitive" tech salary is enough money to retire. I think one must have a very-skewed, bubble-bound definition of "competitive" for that to be plausibly true. Programming jobs don't pay enough to grant easy-mode early retirement for most of our field—even in the US.