You’re right. Books like the Four Hour Workweek and Escape From Cubicle Nation were guides to passive income twenty years ago.

It’s not totally risk-free income (but what is) but a decent pile invested sensibly makes for pretty good passive income depending on your goals.

now where do you get that pile to invest? I have a pile invested - but I'm close to retirement and it took me many years to save it up.

	▲	ghaff 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		By working and investing. More successfully at some points than others. But you’re totally right that different people are better set up and more or less inclined to move on from a job than others.