There is a lot of information floating about these days about FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), side gigs, passive income streams etc. The consensus seems to be that in order to achieve either part of FIRE if you don’t have a significant income it needs to be supplemented by an alternative stream such as a method of passive income. While there is a lot of information about methods to generate passive income, there seems to be little information on how easy (or not) some of these income streams are to implement, how much effort is required to maintain them, how much income they generate for the average person, and how quickly the cash comes rolling in.

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