Retirement
I don't need to make a lot of money before I retire. I turn 65, the canonical age of retirement in the U.S., in 2037. I will be one of those old farts who still programs in Perl and C and will be hired to fix all the old "E-2**31" bugs. I'll be paid somewhere on the order of $1 billion over the year to fix various bugs -- many of which I am currently creating -- and then retire comfortably in Afghanistan (which will be turned into a Middle Eastern vacation spa around 2012). 
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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