LinkedIn Influencers Built Different

LinkedIn influencers are just built different Jack Raines · 2nd The most entertaining account on LinkedIn · Writing Young Money: the best finance... Last week, my Econ professor asked me, “Jack, would you rather take $10,000,000 now, or receive $10,000 per week for the next 50 years?” “Without batting an eye, I said, “Neither. I would rather pay you $10,000 a week.” Shocked, he replied, “That’s insane. No economic model would suggest to do this.” “Insane?” I replied. “Not at all. If you give me money, I lose my drive. I go soft. I might as well roll over and die. If I give you money, it makes me hungry. I have to grind to make more. I have to hustle. The only thing ‘insane’ is that more people don’t think like me.”

A fake LinkedIn post by Jack Raines describes choosing to pay an economics professor $10,000 per week instead of receiving millions, because giving money away supposedly creates motivation. The joke mocks hustle culture and LinkedIn influencers who frame irrational financial decisions as profound lessons about grinding and ambition.

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