Beyoncé is trying to teach us how to become wealthy. Here’s why we should listen…

“Gimme my check. Put some respeck on my check. Or pay me in equity, pay me in equity, and watch me reverse out of debt.” Beyoncé has been trying to tell her people how they can enter into a world or not just the rich, but the wealthy.

She, a patron saint (see what I did there) of equal pay (she did write an entire op-ed on the subject that is totally worth the read) upgrades us by littering her own songs with money references. Beyoncé is after all, the one who told us in “Formation” lyric “always stay gracious, best revenge is you paper.”

However, the above lyric has caused some stir of disagreement. Recently, Refinery29 released a piece saying that you do not want to be paid in equity, saying;

“Many employers would love nothing more than if you asked to be paid in equity! They’d make it rain in useless stock options that’ll never see the light of vesting. For most people, getting good cold, hard cash is best unless you really want to go apeshit. You can be sure, though, that neither “Black Bill Gates in the making” grew their net worth on equity alone — and you shouldn’t either.”

When asking Forbes writer William Baldwin about equity, he explains how equity works for us normal people; “Say [your option award] is for 10,000 shares…