There are ways of making money that do not provide value to other people, or at least provide it very, very indirectly. Or at least people executing them do not view them as value providing methods, but only as money making methods. Take for instance trading. Lots of people have trading as a career or as a main activity. Some are successful and some are not, like with any other money making method. But their success doesn't depend on the value they provide to others.
How do these ways of making money contrast with the first two sentences of Steve's post "The essence of successful income generation is value creation. If you want to earn income, you must provide something that matters enough to someone else that they’ll pay you for it."?
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