I've seen a lot of talk about "generating #PassiveIncome ". To some degree, this is understandable - we all live in a la...

I've seen a lot of talk about "generating #PassiveIncome ". To some degree, this is understandable - we all live in a late-stage Capitalist hellhole, which means that we must always live in fear of bankruptcy unless we are so rich that we can outsource all our risks to other people. Thus, extra income streams which we don't have to do much work is very, very appealing.But ultimately, the real trick to getting passive income... is to have money to start with, which can then be invested in order to pay you dividends or all the other stuff the rentier class gets income from.And if you _don't_ have that money for investment, you will not have those opportunities for passive income, and be _deeply_ suspicious of anyone who tells you otherwise - because they are trying to sell you "self-help courses" and the like which will not help you one bit.As an example, some years ago - before the #AI / #LLM hype even broke loose - I saw people on Twitter flogging "writing books in order to generate pa...