The reason the rich can obtain passive income is that its main source does not come from investment management, and definitely not from playing with capital. — Indeed, playing with capital is also very common, but has anyone thought about where their first pot of gold came from?
In fact, the key core of the rich's passive income is [human labor].
Your labor is their passive income;
Your 996007 is their passive income.
As the saying goes: 'Working class must engage in internal competition, so that bosses can (passively) earn more every year!'
Human labor is the core support for the 'passive income' of the rich; the rest (such as capital financial games/investment management) is just the outer fruit of the core, and definitely not the cause.
Once ordinary people's labor output is lost, the world of the rich will collapse in an instant. — This is also why the main framework of the entire rule is designed around the fundamental purpose: 'How to ensure that ordinary people work day and night continuously.'
So it can also be understood this way: ordinary people must imitate the rich, converting the labor of others into their own passive income,
Otherwise, if one purely relies on investment management, not only is it difficult to obtain passive income, but there is also a high probability of losing it all.
(Special exceptions aside, even if there are exceptions, those who gain passive income in the short term, in the long run, nine out of ten also cannot maintain this wealth.)
This is also why, once ordinary people enter the financial game, they lose nine out of ten times and break even once.
Some might bring up examples of those wealthy landlords in Guangdong:
-- Don't they have so many houses because they rely on 'investment' to earn passive income?
On the surface, it seems so, but this matter cannot withstand deep digging.
Everyone think about it: if no one works, no one labors, who will rent their houses?
It is precisely because some people work day and night, earning rent (outputting labor),
Only then can landlords enjoy passive income.
Of course, this is not to say that landlords are inherently evil; that is absolutely not the case! At least compared to those who really exploit others, many landlords are quite reasonable (excluding unique exceptions).
Anyway, the unspoken rule of the rich's 'passive income' is this; the earlier everyone realizes it, the earlier they can be liberated.
It doesn't mean that one must give up labor or engage in retaliatory laziness; otherwise, one harms oneself by harming the enemy, which is unnecessary.
But we must understand the truth of the matter so that we can have a clearer and more defined path moving forward.
I won't delve deeper; it's not easy to say, so that's it.