ExFlyBoy5
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Wow, I hardly see anyone here at all with pensions and SS covering all their expenses. Perhaps you were referring to someone in particular, but other than Flyboy (who posted after you did), I don't see these posts.
Even if there were a number of people like that posting, risk tolerance is a very individual matter and I would never encourage anyone to exceed their risk tolerance. I remember back in 2008, those of us who invested within our risk tolerance had a LOT of hand-holding to do with those who didn't. Unfortunately it wasn't always successful because a few members sold low, had to go back to work, and so on. To me that is tragic.
I didn't see them, either. I saw one of the first posts that said that pension/SS covered "most expenses" but I think I was the only one (to that point) that said ALL expenses were covered...and most of my assets are indeed in equities. So confused...(which isn't difficult to do!)