Just trying to be financially prudent, reading about how to support my family in this capitalist hellscape we all live in and I keep getting inundated with these shoddily-written articles of 9 images interspersed with 2 sentences between each picture.

"This fuckboi made 84,000 dollars last week in passive income. He works just 8 minutes a week.

Picture of fuckboi

Darren Abercrombie-Evans was lucky enough to start 7 years ago with a shitty consulting blog and be photogenic/blandly interesting/hwite enuf to generate pAsSiV iNcUm

Picture of fuckboi at a computer

Abercrombie-Evans had just quit a bullshit systems analyst job or something when he started to post on LiveJournal about his crypto trading tips.

Stock photo of dollar bills

Abercrombie-Evans explains his daily schedule 'I wake up at 7 am and go for a run. Then I spend 17 seconds posting an inspirational financial wellness thought of the day. Another 3 minutes goes towards giving boilerplate advice to financially precarious followers for a $200 monthly fee, explains Abercrombie-Evans.

Stock photo of family smiling

'The rest of the day I work on my side hustle of drop shipping $2 clothing items made in Southeast Asia, that I slap my logo on and upsell for $89." Abercrombie-Evans has generated over $567,000 in sales in just the first half of 202-

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  • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Noo you don't get it you too can be a successful landleech if you...reads article... have a career ice skating for Disney beforehand. (Seriously they buried that tidbit mid-article wtf)

  • VHS [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Do the media have such a low estimation of the public that they don't think we can tell that "passive income" and record high housing prices are two sides of the same coin?