Hell yes. At a higher level, people also seem to fret about building high-margin, scalable businesses with steady, recurring cashflows -- which often fail. They could have spent their time working on low-margin, niche businesses with low retention -- but which bring in some quick cash.

It's like when Dell started outsourcing their production to Taiwanese manufacturers. Dell was happy because they could focus on "higher-value", more profitable activities like branding and marketing. The Taiwanese were happy as they received piles of cash. A few years later, Taiwanese manufacturing companies like Acer and Asus realised they could sell direct to customers, and Dell was f*cked.

Ramit Sethi is often ranting about kids looking to make passive income. I seen a video with his brother where they basically go head-to-head over the issue. I agree with both Ramit and you on this one. I earn about 1,000 dollars a week working 20 hours on the small Caribbean island of Guadeloupe translating contracts from German to English for Swiss banks. To most people, it would be mind-numbing hell, but to me it gives me 140 hours a week to play with sans money problems.

It was never anything I dreamt I would do, and it was very much something I stumbled upon by chance, but I glad I went this route rather than the lawyer in law firm route

I concord. My experience went like this. I was dried up and unemployed. I thought to myself, if I can't do this with what I have right here right now (skills in front of a computer).. then WTF? So, I started a stupid little project that brought in $10 at a time. My maximum cash-flow for that business was going to be $1,000 / month (that's all I could imagine at the time). In the making of that, I met the right person. Two months later, we had co-created a product that was cash-positive from day 1 of launch and every day since then.

Summary: In the getting of money, you'll meet people that see you as a valuable money getter (possibly a skill they lack). Many people need / want a money getter in their orbit - including many people who are excellent at doing something but know little about how to monetize.