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Working an office job is such a profound waste of life. Making 10k a month on your own is really not that hard, and with 6-9 months of work, can be achieved. Office jobs will be looked back on as slavery 2.0





> Making 10k a month on your own is really not that hard

Does that require to have rich parents? Or rich friends that want to do business with you?


what you think 10k a month is appealing to rich people?

Odd jobs for the rich, easy work, no competition and such. I actually know some people who do that..

Making 10k/mn of lira may not be that hard, but 10k of USD, gbp, or Eur is definitely beyond the grasp of most people.

Think about it. If everyone made $10k/month, the net value of that labor would have to increase about 10x over what it is now(1). I don't think that's an easy thing to do overnight.

And then there would still be variety in the outcome because a lot of us are too slothful or too unconscientious to actually go out and do the necessary. And that's ignoring how hard it would be for those with no network or access (refugee living in a favela in Bogotá, dlavevin Mauretania) regardless of their ambition.

(1)Https://www.zippia.com/advice/average-income-worldwide/


if youre someone in an office job that makes 150-300k, you can probably make money online

That's 10% of people in the USA (at the low end of incomes), less in most other countries.

What's the answer for the other 90%?


> Making 10k a month on your own is really not that hard,

Do share.


Can't wait for the society where everyone sits at home and lives off of online scams, rather than having to work.

its already more in this camp than people realize. also, established businesses are often a wrapper around a low value scam, where some minuscule aspect of the services they provide is actually essential

Only certain types of jobs can be done alone. Can you cure cancer on your own? And if you start a company and hire people, you're back to an office job :)

Not all office jobs suck.


> Can you cure cancer on your own?

Cancer is many, many things. It may not even be a thing we can "cure" together, whatever that means.

We may as well ask if we can cure Mondays.


If ML solves all disease then it won't matter if it is many things. But that's beside the point.

even if your office job doesnt suck, its still a waste of life

For a very small set of people, it is true. For the rest of 99.99% of the world, it is impossible.

All you need to do is have 5k worth of stuff you can sell every month?

Do tell??

> Making 10k a month on your own is really not that hard, and with 6-9 months of work, can be achieved. Office jobs will be looked back on as slavery 2.0

This. Don't want to hear anymore excuses. It can be done.

Now with AI, there will be even less jobs over time and likely a 10% increase in global unemployment in the next few decades or so.

Have some ambition and make 10k a month on your own without sending CVs to AI recruiters.


How? I asked Copilot if it could code my game ideas (which would sell millions, obviously) and it said it could, but it was lying.



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