the.com/future assets
money you swear you'll have, spent by the version of you who never shows up.
means income, savings, or value you expect to receive later, often borrowed against or relied upon before it actually exists.
from the phrase floats around finance and law wherever people pledge tomorrow's earnings for today's loans, rooted in the old economic idea that expected future cash flow can be treated as collateral, even though it is, by definition, not yet real.
legal usecourts debate if unearned future assets can be seized
psychology linktied to present bias, overvaluing hoped-for later wealth
startup versionequity promised before the company earns a dollar
common traplifestyle inflation funded by assets that never arrive