Poll Would You Take $1M Upfront or $1K A Week For Life

Which would you take?

  • $1M Upfront

  • $1K A Week For Life


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Asked AI:
"If I was given $1,000 a week for the rest of my life, how many years would it take to add up to $1,000,000 factoring inflation?"
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Why would u wait potentially up to 30 years for something you can have today?

Especially if it's invested and paying you dividends vs weekly payments that have much much less ROI
 
Another one lol
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$1 mill up front would afford me almost another $1 mill of vacations for u to not spend a dime of your $1k weekly for 25 years straight to end up close to same networth
 
Even worse, yall talking like a million dollars is what a million dollars was in the 90s. Two maybe three big purchases and that money gone. You back at square one.

Thing is, you can say the same thing about $1,000/week.

That's basically an average salary now.


Back in the 90's though, it was closer to what $100K/yr is today.


With the $1million, if invested properly, you could double........triple it.........or even more over the course of the next 10-20 years.
 
The $1000 a week is a stupid choice. You could basically find a high yield savings account that gives you a 5% annual interest rate. If you put that million in there and after a year start skimming the interest you'd be able to get close to 1000 a week while still having the million if you ever needed it. On top of that you'd be able to pass it to your family if you died. There really isn't any benefit to the $1000 a week.
 
1k a week is 52k a year.

Take the mil and put it in a CD.

Capital One is currently offering 4.15% interest on a CD that requires 100k minimum.

On a mil that's 42k.

This way you get the 1 mil and the 1k a week.

I'm sure you can find CDs that pay more and get that as close to 52k a year as you can.

Anything but the 1M upfront is foolishness.
 
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