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Originally Posted by cpalmer  My ideal lifestyle will certainly involve some sort of internet based business(es) that would allow me to generate value for people and receive multiple streams of passive income while retaining complete time freedom and choice in where I live |
You've overlooked one thing: what makes you happy doesn't make other people happy. Not everyone feels their purpose in life is to set up a web business.
I have a friend who is a farmer. He quit a decent paying truck/delivery job to do this. He works in all weather. And you know what... he LOVES his job. He has no commute, no boss, and no dealing with rude customers. He sets his own hours. He has the money he needs to buy what he wants. You couldn't pay him enough to sit down at a computer.
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Let's say you make $10,000 a month as a professional blogger or the owner of an internet business - a goal many of us would be absolutely ecstatic to attain. You rely on literally hundreds if not thousands of people to hold up the systems that allow your business to function and allow you to live on the money you make. Think about it...
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And there are doctors, executives, and lawyers out there making three times that. And they may be looking down on you for making only a few thousand a month. (it's all relative to your perspective!)
There are people out there making a fraction of that who don't have a huge drive for material goods. They earn enough to buy a home, health care, food, and other essentials. The don't look forward to cash bonuses, they look forward to family reunions or finishing a hobby project.
Why do you
need $120,000 a year? Will having a luxury car or big house really buy happiness?
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Bottom line.... like it or not, there are a lot of jobs ranging from mundane to downright dangerous and crappy that need to be done before ANYONE can enjoy the kind of financial freedom made possible by an internet based business....
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And there are guys like Bill Gates who love to sell you the computers and software you need to do your blogging. Would Bill Gates want your job or would he call it "crappy" ? (again it's about perspective)
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I'm merely pointing out that we all need to look well beyond the problem of 'escaping the 9-5 working existence' and becoming so-called 'free human beings', and realize that even when you manage to attain that position, there are still thousands of people in the bigger picture who will need to continue working jobs so we can enjoy that life, and at the very least we need to be aware of and profoundly thankful for it.
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But not everyone is slaving a mundane 9-5 existence. You're still assuming everyone wants/needs the same thing as you.
- Mundane doesn't mean 40 hours a week; to me mundane means the person isn't living their passion.
- "9-5" doesn't necessarily require an escape. Some people
love their 40-hour-workweek jobs.
- Can't one be a "free" human being and find their passion, then integrate it into a job?
- Why is success measured only by size of paycheck?
Not saying an internet job is bad, if that's what you want to do. But we all have our own goals and priorities.
