The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/?ref=labnotes.org
Jade Roller Guy has become my go-to example of something that went drastically, terribly wrong with how a whole generation of would-be entrepreneurs thought about work and money. A specific ideology - I’ve been calling it Passive Income Brain - grabbed a huge chunk of the people who were, by temperament and ability, most likely to start real businesses, and it gave them a completely fucked set of priorities.