This is basically a lottery lump sum question but worse payment stream and better taxation (i.e. no taxes!). It is generally already better to get the lump sum in lottery payouts assuming you don’t spend it all in a few short years. The same would apply here
If interest rate was 2.8% you could double your money in 20 years. If it was higher, you could double your money quicker, or give yourself some spending money while still accumulating wealth. Compounding interest of the lump sum would make it very difficult for the 100k to come ahead unless you blow through the 2 million quickly as i initially said.
Also i don’t have 20 years left so I’ll take the lump sum
This is basically a lottery lump sum question but worse payment stream and better taxation (i.e. no taxes!). It is generally already better to get the lump sum in lottery payouts assuming you don’t spend it all in a few short years. The same would apply here
Except in this scenario the $100k is for life. Where the $2mil is only the same as 20 years of payments. At year 21 you would be up from the lump.
But having the lump would allow you to invest more heavily at once.
If interest rate was 2.8% you could double your money in 20 years. If it was higher, you could double your money quicker, or give yourself some spending money while still accumulating wealth. Compounding interest of the lump sum would make it very difficult for the 100k to come ahead unless you blow through the 2 million quickly as i initially said.
Also i don’t have 20 years left so I’ll take the lump sum
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