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Building Passive Income Isn’t a Passive Endeavour. Here’s Why.

Aldric Chen
4 min readJul 31, 2020

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We love the idea of receiving passive income.

In fact, it is probably the 8th wonder in the World. It is money for nothing.

Imagine all the vacation we can take. Imagine just spending without limit. Imagine that freedom we have just doing what we want to do, or what we don’t want to do. We can leave an office as we require or even not get into an office if we so desire.

It sounds seductive.

It is no wonder that searching for “Passive Income” on google returns 147,000,000 results in 0.02 seconds. My interpretation is simple. If there are content producers churning articles and websites for this topic, it means there is demand for this topic.

A huge demand.

While it is a seductive idea to get income monthly without having to ever commit one ounce of effort, the question we have to ask is this: -

“Is it real?”

Traditionally or should I say, the way we are brought up stipulates that we exchange effort and time for money. The more we can earn, the higher the amount we get to save beyond our necessary expenditures. Passive income took that concept to a higher level where we can trade zero hours for dollars.

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Aldric Chen
Aldric Chen

Written by Aldric Chen

Singaporean. 24x Top Writer (as of June 2023). Eavesdropper. I uncover interesting stories around me.

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