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[โ€“] Lennnny@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I make about $1k a month absolutely, completely passively from Amazon. I've put in maybe 30 minutes in three years. When I tell people this, they see that passive income is real.

Then I tell them about the years before that, where I spent every second I had making shirt and book designs. I had made a single sale early on and I saw the potential, so I sunk every godforsaken hour I had to spare (I also worked full time) designing and uploading, researching, networking, and pushing. I gambled, grafted, and earned it.

It's absolutely worth the investment, but I only know that now. Back then it was an insane gamble - hundreds of hours of proper work for ?????. I stop telling people about my 'passive' income now because no one wants to ruin the dream of freeeee money.

[โ€“] meneervana@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're literally telling us that you did actually put in a ton of labour, so it's not completely passive

[โ€“] Lennnny@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's why passive was in quotes.