➡ The speaker prefers both partners earning $50k each, totaling $100k, rather than one partner earning $250k. He believes this reduces stress and allows for a better work-life balance, especially without kids. He argues against depending on a partner’s income and emphasizes the importance of individual financial independence. He also discusses the physical and mental demands of higher-paying jobs, and the potential impact of inflation on income.
➡ The speaker believes that spending too much time together can harm relationships. They suggest seeing each other two to three times a week for a healthier relationship. They also emphasize the importance of focusing on personal goals and work, stating that too much time spent in a relationship can hinder personal growth and success.

I’d rather make 50k and my wife make 50k before I go and make 250 by myself and be the only income. Both bringing in $110,000, $120,000 together, that’s good money. Especially with no kids. We have no big overhead. That’s great. Go on vacations whenever you want to. All you gotta do is just go work your shift, split everything, and y’all good. It’s not really splitting and y’all locked in together to be honest. Versus a man that makes 250k, has to take care of the kids, has to take care of his wife because she doesn’t work.

That money is long gone and he’s carrying most of the stress. His work-life balance is upside down because he has to bring in all of that income from all of those people for all of those mouths to feed. So that money gets stretched. So yes, 50-50 is better than single income. I’m gonna play it one more time for y’all because sometimes the quick videos go over y’all head. I’m gonna play it one more time, all right? Just to make sure that we all got it. I’d rather make 50k and my wife make 50k before I go and make 250 by myself and be the only income.

Both bringing in $110,000, $120,000 together, that’s good money. Especially with no kids. We have no big overhead. That’s great. Go on vacations whenever you want to. All you gotta do is just go work your shift, split everything and y’all good. It’s not really splitting and y’all locked in together to be honest. Versus a man that makes 250k, has to take care of the kids, has to take care of his wife because she doesn’t work. That money is long gone and he’s carrying most of the stress. His work-life balance is upside down because he has to bring in all of that income from all of those people for all those mouths to feed.

So that money gets stretched. So yes, 50-50 is better than single income. Somebody in the chat, for example, says, I’m gonna use this as an example in order to illustrate my point. Somebody in the chat said, let me see if I can find it. I gotta see if I can find it. Give me a second. Give me a second. I can’t find it. I don’t know where it went. Somebody said, you know, Anton, so he said he would rather make $150,000 less because her income and his income, which combined, if they both made roughly $50,000 a year, then that would be $100,000 a year versus $250,000 a year.

So I want to break this down and slice this down before we get into the conversations because I honestly, I didn’t sleep that good last night and I was thinking about this. And so the first thing is her income, his income, $100,000 a year combined, all right, versus his income alone. And let’s assume, for example, that she’s not working and he’s making $250,000 a year, all right. First of all, somebody said, well, Anton, why would somebody take $150,000 combined less? I’m gonna just tell you, as Anton from AntonDaniels.com, as a 43-year-old man that has been married for 21 years, I will never, ever count their income.

I look at it as being down $200,000. I am never going to depend on or count on another woman for her income. I’m me. I am me by myself. So when I look at my numbers and when I’m putting my budget together, my budget is based off of what I bring in and then we can figure out whatever that little pittance that she got going on over there or maybe I’ve given her allowance or whatever. But I look at it as, man, I’m not making $200,000. I’m not going to say, hey, we a hundred together.

I’m gonna be like your old dog. I’m down $200,000. Because now I got to ask you for permission to do shit. Man, hey, babe. So listen, this is what the budget is. And you know what? I need some money for haircut. I need the money to get my beard done. I need some money to go and take care of this or whatever. No, and see, that’s one of the things that guys are not really taking advantage of is the fact that listen, when you get into the bag and when you went in and when you at the top of your game and all of that stuff, let me tell you something, bro.

You could do what you want to do because you basically control everything within yourself, right? If I want to go and do whatever I want to do, who’s going to tell me no, because everything is taken care of and nobody is starving out here in these streets. You know what I’m saying? I’m not answering to nobody in my household. And so in a way, you pay the cost to be the boss. You pay the cost to be a boss. All right. Think about it from this lens. Because he’s saying with a woman, with a kids, with family, nigga, would you take 250 by yourself over $50,000 by yourself or do you still want work-life balance or is that a part of having a conversation about being with a woman? Let me say it again.

Would you take 250 by yourself or would you take 50 by yourself? Because again, I’m never going to depend on a woman in order for me to be able to make my lifestyle. Now, that’s separate from the whole idea of man, do you know I’m never going to take a $200,000 pay cut? I wouldn’t take a $30,000 pay cut. So why would I take a 150 or $200,000 pay cut? Man, listen, if y’all niggas are so concerned with work-life balance, I will also give you this. Because a person that is sitting there telling me that they cool with making $250,000 a year, I will tell you that they have never even come close to being super successful.

And again, I understand that it’s okay to have a regular job. It’s cool as long as you are doing something legal. I have nothing to say about it. But in the context of this conversation, bro, when you’re making 250, usually it’s easier in whatever you do versus making 50. People that make 50 work harder than people that make 250. People that make 250, sometimes they got to be more available. Sometimes they got to put in a little bit more time. Sometimes they got to be a little bit more taxing mentally or emotionally.

And it’s ways that you can solve for that. But the fact of the matter is, if you’re making 50 versus 250, the person that’s making 50, nine times out of 10, they work hard physically. They physically work harder than a person. As much time as I put in, you’ll never see me complaining because I used to work in a steel mill. And in order for me to make 100 in a steel mill, I had to be there. I had to actually physically do stuff. I got my arm burned sometimes. Sometimes the hair on my arm would be skinned because I got too close to the coils and it’d be hot and all of this other type of stuff.

Bro, at this rate that I’m going right now, yes, I put in a lot of time. Yes, sometimes I don’t sleep as much because I want to continue to push and do all of this stuff. I may have to take some flights, but nigga, I’m sitting in my condo or in my penthouse downtown looking at the workers saying, man, this rain and hurt outside. At the end of the day, when you get to a certain level, you don’t work physically as hard as a dude that is working 50. I’m telling you the truth.

Y’all can’t say things about women sometimes. And we know that women are crazy, but women have already been crazy. Y’all can’t say stuff about women and say that, oh man, she want too much. Nigga, sometimes we just don’t have the motivation. Real talk. Sometimes we don’t have the want to be great. So wait a minute, you cool with just making 50 for the rest of your life. What about 20 years from now? Nigga, what about it when inflation hit? 50,000 ain’t even the 50,000 that it was six years ago, seven years ago.

You don’t want to have a better life. You cool with that? You want to have work-life balance? So what you want to do? You want to chill? You want to have a conversation? Somebody said I was a woman that was in my chat because I dropped the reaction video to this on the Anton Daniels channel. It was a woman that was in my chat and she said, hand time. No, he’s right because, you know, you wouldn’t even be able to spend no time. Man, I don’t want to spend no motherfucking time. How much time you want me to spend with you? You want me to sit up under you all day? So wait a minute.

Wait a minute. So I’m gonna sleep for eight hours, work for eight hours, and then I’m gonna supposed to spend the other eight. Let’s say it take me 30 minutes there to and from to get back and forth to work. So I got seven more hours. You telling me that I’m supposed to be, what are we, what are we supposed to talk about for the next seven hours? I’m supposed to be sitting and kicking it with you for seven hours every day. So you want me to, you want me to sit up under you for seven hours every day.

And listen, I’m gonna be real with you. I don’t want to kick it with nobody for seven hours straight every day. Nigga, I love you. And I think that you are the most awesome person in the world, but we got to miss each other. We got to admit what you mean. You can’t see his family. How long do I need to see you? We kicked it. We watched the movie for about 35 minutes until the movie started watching us. We busted down for a real one. And then we went on, you know what I’m saying? We went to sleep.

We want to move out our business. I see you on date night. We might be able to, we might be able to skip a day or two in between so that we’ll have some time to miss each other. We probably don’t even need to see each other every day. As a matter of fact, when you get to a certain level, you can start to say, you know what, I’m gonna get you a house over here. I’m a city boy at the end of the day. So I like to see the city. And then you love down here because you see it.

You’re like, man, I always feel like I’m out of town. We can create our own world. We can mold this shit how we want to see it. Whatever we want to do. I might need a day or two to just focus. I like to sleep in my office. I don’t even go home sometimes. I’ll be sleeping in my studio because I just want to get right back to work because I’m a hustler at the end of the day. Man, I’m not trying to sit up under no woman every fucking day for no seven, eight hours.

If I see you two to three times a week, we are going to have a great relationship. See y’all don’t, I might have to add that in the after hours tomorrow because y’all, y’all idea, y’all idea, ignore the thunder, y’all idea of a relationship might be, might be off. That’s why y’all don’t like each other. That’s why y’all got problems in your relationship. Nigga, she see you too much. You see her, you see her too much. That’s why you don’t like her. That’s what nigga, I’m two, three times a week, four, if we really feeling each other or we got some mission or we out of town together or something like that, that I’m telling you is perfect.

You will never, ever have a bad relationship if you can see somebody two to three times a week. I’ll give you two to four. Two to four, nigga, you’re going to be perfect. Perfect. Two to three times a week. The other time you got some time to do you, 90% of it you probably hustling and grinding, the other 10 to 15%, you having a good time, you enjoying yourself, you can lay out, nigga, I can go watch the 85 inch. You don’t even know that that’s an 85. That’s like an 85, 90, but the wall’s so goddamn big that you can’t even really make sense of it.

That’s an 85, 90, but that’s how big my goddamn walls are. That’s how high. Florida ceilings, windows. You can go bust it down for a real one. Two to three times a week, nigga, that’s all y’all having sex for anyway. Now you can go get some money because I be telling single people all the time when I be in coaching sessions, they say end time. Yeah, man, I just, man, I just got out of a relationship, long-term relationship. I’m sick about it. This and that, so on and so forth. I said, so wait a minute, wait a minute.

So you, you, you got your own place and stuff. Yeah. How many hours you been working a week? Uh, you know, I’m at work for like 40, but I probably worked like 28. Maybe you can go get rich now. You can go get rich now. What are you talking about? That’s the reason why a lot of you niggas is not money makers. A lot of you, a lot of the reason why you broke is because you spending too much time under these holes, bro. I’m telling you, you’re spending too much time under holes.

That’s why you not rich. [tr:trw].

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