$43 million. This is the 18-year-old Lamine Yamal’s annual income.

At an age when most of his peers are still reaching out to their families for living expenses, the Spanish teenager made a decision that left every adult dumbfounded: every cent—nothing left over—went straight into his mother’s account.
He himself has no assets. What about the house? It’s under his mother’s name. What’s a payroll card? That’s his mother’s too. What about trademark rights? Still his mother’s.
No matter how his girlfriend tries to persuade him, he refuses to speak up.
Some people think this boy is ruthless, that even the people around him need to watch out for him. But if you think about it seriously, this isn’t cruelty—it’s truly taking in the hard-earned experience passed down by predecessors, exchanged with their lives.
In football, there’s a famous “honest man” story. The Moroccan star Achraf, earning several tens of millions of euros a year, when he got divorced, his ex-wife, accompanied by a lawyer, was confident she could take half of the marital assets. But when the court checked, things turned surreal: this top player doesn’t have a single bank card in his own name. His house, car, and savings are all registered under his mother’s name.
The ex-wife got nothing.
Later, Achraf said on a program that starting from age eighteen, all the money has been managed by his mother. He said something very realistic: when you become successful and famous, there are very few people you can trust. Whether you have money or not, Mom will never go and steal your money.
Jackie Chan has also said something similar. This guy has been in the world for thirty years, and he has seen many brothers in the martial arts scene use their lives to earn money—only for it to end up being taken away, siphoned off, leaving them in a bleak state when they reach old age. His advice is simple: money is