In FAANG and hot startups, maybe. In the rest of the industry, not many software workers make enough to realistically retire by 50, anyway. Not without living

In FAANG and hot startups, maybe. In the rest of the industry, not many software workers make enough to realistically retire by 50, anyway. Not without living like monks their entire lives. (recall: you need a lot more money to retire at 50 than at 65) And older workers mostly do OK in the rest of the industry, at least until age 60 or so.