I spent way too long trying to figure out how giving your kids your lifetime's earnings would be a performance hack beyond, you know, giving them a head start, before realizing what the headline was talking about.
On a more serious note, thinly veiled threats by patriarchs to their children working in the family business regarding their eventual share in the business is something that probably happens routinely around the world, especially in areas like Europe, East Asia, South Asia, and South East Asia, with many multi-generational privately held family businesses.