• rekabis@programming.dev
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    28 days ago

    I created a bunch of blogs myself, did all of the development and design myself, managed the servers myself, and wrote all of the content myself.

    Sure sounds like labour to me.

    And there is no requirement for labour to generate income immediately. A majority of labour is front-loaded, with income being back-loaded.

    I still have one of them, and I receive around $60 per month from it despite the fact that I haven’t touched it in over a decade.

    Server maintenance and updating code to work with current releases is still “labour”. Because sure as shit you’ve been doing these things… no hosting provider is going to let you go 10 years with zero updates or patches to the website or the underlying framework that allows the website to run. Because failing to do that is how entire hosting platforms get rooted and infected with malware.

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        28 days ago

        By your definition game development (in the old style) is also passive income… so is art… so is building a house or a car or pretty much any form of manufacturing.

        These activities all involve building something with no promise of selling it - then trying to find a buyer… in each case you, the producer, are investing up front in a venture which may or may not succeed and then hoping someone will pay you for it.