# The Cost of Ownership By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-09-12 The fundamental difference between active and passive income is ownership. Many people aspire to obtain passive income to make money while they sleep or drink on the beach. Typically, these individuals dream of collecting enough money to invest in dividend stocks, creating digital assets such as training or templates that people purchase, or developing a YouTube channel that generates lots of advertising revenue. None of these are easy to obtain for most people because ownership is hard to come by. To own something, one must have the time and resources to obtain or create it. Instead, one is left working for a corporation that pays for one's time, and anything one makes at work belongs to them. Increasingly, we are left working more than ever to afford the "cultural necessities." This results in insufficient time to create and own something that could generate passive income. There are several pathways to passive income in the current environment: 1. Be born with lots of money. 2. Find a wealthy investor who digs one shit. 3. Work hard, get lucky, climb the ladder, have few life responsibilities and relationships, and save enough money to quit one's corporate job. 4. Pretend to work 60 hours a week while only working the 10 hours required to do one's corporate job and spend the rest of time creating for one's self. 5. Become an outcast and live by one's own rules. One is delusional if one think ownership will be gained without fight, luck, sacrifice, and/or revolution. #### Related Items [[Salary]] [[Wealth]] [[Ownership]] [[Economics]] [[Organization]] [[Work]] [[Passive Income]]