Mafioso slang for a mob employee who is a hard worker and of good value to the family. Typically someone is considered a "good earner" because they bring in more money to the organization than they take out. An employee could also be considered a good earner if he/she exhibits a special skill set, such as a keen ability to remember numbers, or being very good at killing people.
People inside the Gambino family wanted to whack John Gotti early in his career because of some outlandish stuff he pulled, but they kept him around because he was a good earner.
Paulie? Why you fuckin wanna whack Paulie? Paulie's a good earner. You're not fuckin whackin Paulie.
It's cockney (i.e. from London) rhyming slang for earning money. Bunce is derived from bunsen burner (a common piece of school laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame and named after Robert Bunsen) and this rhymes with earner.
It was toughwork but I was earning a good bit of bunce .
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”