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Aazadan t1_jbqvgoy wrote

For those in the US who can afford to put away money, the most common retirement plan, is making a median wage (so somewhere around $55k), contributing up to the company match of probably 6%, using pre tax dollars, putting it into index funds, and relying on a 4% drawdown rate.

If a 25 year old did this, and wanted to retire at 67, that $275/month contribution would get them a nest egg of $760k, which would be 30,400/year, with no room for safety with market fluctuations.

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Aazadan t1_jbqu1m2 wrote

Orca's eat a lot. Most animals in captivity take substantial effort to rehabilitate into the wild so that they don't just die. There's not really a good program to do that for Orca's. Seriously, it's orders of magnitude harder and more expensive to rehabilitate an animal.

Lets put this into a human anology. A kid who speaks only Japanese does something at age 15 and spends the next 20 years in the US in a Supermax with only Russian speaking cellmates. Then spends the following 20 years in solitary confinement with no language. Then is released onto a street in the US with no education, no assets, no job skills, and no support network. What do you think would happen? And that person would be much better off than the Orca.

It's unlikely the park could afford rehabilitation, even if they wanted to.

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