$1 Million Today or $60,000 per Year for Life? The Answer That Sparked a Firestorm

Ryan Herbert, Catherine Gross here with us this week.

And sometimes we like to stir it up here on the show.

A lot of times, you know, people call in with their questions, but we posed a hypothetical question recently to our listeners here.

Would you rather have a million dollars cash tax-free, or $60,000 a year for the rest of your life? Again, very hypothetical.

No one's handing anybody any money here [laughs] on The Savvy Investor Radio Show and Podcast.

But Ryan, you stirred it up with your answer.

What was your preference here? A million bucks tax-free or 60,000 a year for life?

My answer to that question was $60,000 a year for life, and it's, it's based...

You know, that answer for me is, is really based on my particular situation at the moment.

It's just something that, that I'd rather have.

And, you know, it was a shockingly, you know, a, a, a very innocuous comment, very generalized hypothetical-

Sure

... question.

And it, it, it went viral-

[laughs]

... for, for our standards because, you know, we got 20,000 views and a whole bunch of comments-

Mm-hmm

... which is kind of, you know, way outside the norm.

I think Catherine's had one of her videos go, you know, pretty similar-

[laughs]

... similar in nature.

But, you know, the, the amount of comments that, that we receive were, were kind of all over the board.

Mm-hmm.

And, you know, for better or worse, you know, it got a lot of negative comments, a lot of, a lot of disagreeing comments, which, you know, a- as far as the algorithm of, you know, social media goes, the more comments it gets, the more it shows to other people.

The more negative comments happen, the even more it goes.