You’re right, AN, everyone reaches their financial goals in different ways, at different times. As long as each of us reach our own particular financial goals in life, that’s all that really matters. (speaking purely from a monetary perspective)

My concern, and, I think, perhaps the concern of some others who have posted in this thread, is that the stats reveal only 5% of the population is financially solvent–based upon net worth–which is the generally accepted barometer for financial “success.”

As ER alluded, you don’t really know if people are financially successful until you know their net worth–minus smoke and mirrors.

As flu always says, don’t worry about it, take care of your own, which I know all of us here plan to do, but it still makes you wonder what the ramifications of the ever-declining financial solvency in 95% of the US population will create in our society going forward.