A Passive Income Hacker's View on Wealth
All of these passive income stories fall into three buckets:<p>1) The passive income these people generate is from selling suckers who want to believe in free money a book for $9.95.<p>2) Their definition of a good passive income is at or near the poverty line in the U.S (That mustache guy?).  That's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but it's not the life most people want to live.<p>3) The person got massively lucky with a startup (lots of hours invested there) or real estate and think that idea is easily translatable into a few blog posts.  These stories are all survivorship bias and don't account the 1,000 people who failed.<p>Everyone wants to believe that there's a free lunch out there.  That's why scams like stock trading apps, time shares, ponzi home marketing schemes, etc. are so prevalent.