2w ago

The secret to getting rich

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It's a good joke
But half because the logic is so terrible. That's not passive income. It's retail
- Uses other people's money for both the product and service = "passive".
  You're not thinking enough like a grifter to grasp the "big-picture" thinking at work here.
  quotation marks = sacastic/fake in my usage, to be clear.
  
  You’re not thinking enough like a grifter
  I mean, its obviously a shit post. But I imagine spending a whole day doing fake interviews - 50 a day, five days a week, for a month - to make around $6k gross, and then tell yourself you can scale this up passively.
50-60 a day? Assuming a 7.5 h workday, or 450 minutes, that's ~8 minutes per interview, pretty hard to keep up even for fake ones
- Its also not passive if you're working for it lmao
  
  Doing 50 conversations in a day is a lot of work.
- Also on the high end, 30 people buy a drink, meeting 300$ profit? What are the sodas $20 each?
  
  $300 divided by 30 would be $10, but still, there's no fucking way anyone is going for that. The post is probably meant as satire, but they should have at least made it believable
- Gotta be group interviews. Had a few of them in my time. They're shit.
  
  Even with group interviews... Let's take the supposed profit, 300$, and assume it's 100 pops at 3$ each, and for the sake of it let's say revenue = profit in this case. That's 100 purchases per day.
  The post claims 50 interviewees per day, so 2 purchases per interviewees.
  By groups of 10, that's 5 cohorts spending 1h each with the interviewer, during which every. Single. Person. Buys 2 drinks?
  Humm!
This feels like another one of those funny jokes that someone will come along and ruin by telling me he's serious.
- This does not seem feasible and isn't passive income at all because he's actively doing stuff to make it happen.
  
  I could believe someone might call it "passive" in their head (they're not actively selling the thing, I suppose). Because having "passive income" seems to be a kind of status symbol for some people.
That's some expensive drinks too.
I mean how is that even remotely passive?
- It's "passive" because it uses his employers' time and money to generate additional off-the-books income for himself.
  Same way many land-lords mortgage their rental properties close-to insolvency. Damn straight, "passive"=using other people's money.
  
  I doubt he's using company time if he does 50-60 interviews daily and doesn't hire anyone. No company would pay you to do that.
This is satire right?
- Almost certainly.
  
  Only almost, though.
- The entire world is
It's one drink, what could it cost? Ten dollars?
9000$ a month won't do shit
It’s a Japanese vending machine design, and it’s half embedded into the jutting corner of that wall.
- Frankly, I wouldn't want to work in an office whose floorplan is only measured in 3 dimensions.
- Photoshopping to avoid tipping-off his employer is the closest thing to a smart decision on display here. Worthless if he's not using a pseudonym.
  Nice catch!

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