Do a lot of people live off dividends?

I have lived off my dividends for 16 years while I watched the dividend payments increase and the total portfolio more than triple in value. If instead of living off dividends you invested them …

Top stories for Long   Do a lot of people live off dividends? Ian Duncan MacDonald, President of Informus Inc. (2005-present) • Answered June 14, 2021 I have lived off my dividends for 16 years while I watched the dividend payments increase and the total portfolio more than triple in value. If instead of living off divide... Read more » 2.2K 232   Is having children worth it? Bart Schreuder, Father • Updated August 24 I became a father when I was 43. Some people have known they want children all their lives. I wasn't one of them. Rationally speaking, having children is a pretty stupid th... Read more » 2.1K 280   If olive oil is bad for cooking at high temperature, what oil do Italians use for cooking? Charls Mendinok, lives in Italy (1989-present) • Answered December 22 To begin with, olive oil and extra virgin olive oil are two totally different animals. Olive oil can be classified as "extravirgin" if it has been extracted by the process o... Read more » 316 27   Buzz Aldrin has been denying the moon landing as of recent. Did we really go to the moon? Danny Haas, former Retired Engineer • Answered June 7, 2024 Edwin Aldrin flew to the moon on the Apollo 11 mission and landed there on July 20, 1969. As he got older, he grew weary of moon landing deniers accusing him of lying and p... Read more » 12.2K 1.6K   Why is MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell allowed to lie saying that Americans pay for tariffs when Trump says that Billions are pouring in and paid by the importing countries? Shouldn't MSNBC lose its broadcast license over this? Gene Taylor, former Call Center Tech Consultant at Airliners (2010-2017) • Answered December 23 I purchased a new hedge clipper, made in China. A week before the tariffs, I would have paid $150 for it. But Walmart (an American company) had to pay tariff prices when they... Read more » 7.7K 1.2K   Why is the math problem 6÷2(1+2) so controversial? Does it have to do with right-to-left notation? I mean, the answer is clearly 9, and there's no other way to solve it unless you read from right to left, so the answer would be 1. Mark Harrison, BA (Oxon), MA (Oxon), Mathematics and Computation joint honours • Answered December 21 It's controversial because different countries teach different rules. In many cases, the differences don't matter, but in this case they do. Most people who stopped studying ... Read more » 140 38   Why does the B-52 take off without rotating? Chris Ishmael, 30 years as an aviation maintenance professional. • Answered May 24, 2019 Its a direct result of the way the wing is attached to the fuselage. The B-52s wing has a positive angle of incidence, meaning the wings leading edge is higher than its trai... Read more » 1.3K 87   Fatimah Sheikh, Doctor at Medical Doctors (2002-present) • Posted Feb 13, 2025 My husband and I owned a 150-year-old farmhouse that we used as a weekend getaway. One Friday night, we arrived, turned everything on, and went out for dinner. When we got back, my husband asked if ... Read more » 6.9K 512   If cancer needs carbs (glucose) to grow, why don't doctors change people's diets when the cancer is first diagnosed? Shylin Peterson, Party Time Nurse (2005-present) • Answered December 18 Realizing that I was passionately invested in this same question a number of years ago when my aunt was being treated for breast cancer and a family member was actively enc... Read more » 309 19   Why do European people stop travelling to the USA? Bob Jordan, lives in England (1968-present) • Answered October 29, 2019 First impressions count. I landed on a plane from England. The border security guard had trouble with my accent but rather than being polite and asking me to speak slower, h... Read more » 5.2K 449   Why is Linux kernel written in C and not C++ given that C++ is more flexible and one can write C code in C++ as well? Nadeem Shaikh, AI Engineer, Former Full Stack Developer, 10 Years in IT • Updated December 13 **Update Dec 13 2025 ** After 1.5 k Views, adding some more details in the answer Some developers sent Linux kernel code in C++ to Linus Torvalds but Linus told "Stop sending... Read more » 90 12   How do hotels decide which room to give a guest? Example, I'm on the road, I stop at a Hampton Inn for the night, and ask for the standard king bed, non-smoking, and they have 20 of those open. How do they decide if I stay in room 219, 407, 333 etc? Zachary Stone • Answered December 18 I spent a good 15 years in hospitality working front desk at several different hotels, from a small 52 room hotel to a 388 room hotel in downtown San Francisco, to a hotel ... Read more » 93 7 Read more in your feed

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