Look Beyond the Present Value: What Your Money Could Be Worth in the Future

With money, you can't just look at what it's worth today; you need to consider what it could be worth in the future.

For instance, if you spent 200,000 yuan twenty years ago buying a car, that same amount of money used for a house back then could be worth at least 2 million today—maybe even 20 million. But the car you bought? It's probably been scrapped by now.