Nowadays there are a lot of ways to “make” money in the “Real” World – cleaning, teaching, delivering stuff, curing people, buying and selling, building & repairing, gabling,Β etc. The technical evolution expanded the options – writing articles, visual designing, programming, business analysis, marketing, social media designing, buying & selling in a lot of form factors, administrating data, re-searching information, etc.
For the individuals that haven’t understood the core, the essence of the things said, written, shared online – “Making Money from the Internet / the Social Media Platform X / Bitcoin / Some other catchy word/tech/” could be imagined as something magical. It could be even interpreted as – making money is like downloading a file. Things cannot be further to the truth than that. I’ll wake you up about several of the ways people “make” money in this article.
Having a Business, or being an Entrepreneur are vague terms that could hide unimaginable actual reality. In a perfect world – that things you do – do change the world. In a perfect world you own (or have a part of) the work you execute. Also, you make so much money that you could extract some amount of it, so you could fulfill the basic human needs and a little bit more. In a perfect world, what you tell about what you do is the same as in reality – the good parts and also the bad parts. There is no sugar dressed image, so you could sell more. In a perfect world – the experience of the users/customers from the things you do is matching the information, the financial, the material effect of your actions.
Information layer
In reality – the information layer is used – to make money – under the umbrella of a company owned by few. The money itself is coming from the nothing. The reality is of less importance. The subjective experience of the users is fake. If their experience is good – their opinion is reinforced by the information spreading systems. If their experience is bad – the user is many times manipulated – that the fault is his own – or the way he has used the product or service and this is self-defending the scammer.
Billionaires
The people that are considered billionaires rarely have in their own private bank account this amount of money. It’s majority is stored in non-monetary stores – shares of companies, stock indexes, lately – crypto-currencies and other formats. This could teach us a lesson about where we store any money (if we have in excess).
Drop shipping
A drop-shipping practitioner is actually a order/purchases fulfiller, and promoted product hunter. If you’ve found a software systems that completes them automatically – good for you. Otherwise you are just stack processing. Non of the course selling junkies will tell you this.
Marketing
Marketing is just the term that describes how psychologically the masses are tricked into a product or a service. Some of the approaches are – half truths, artificial scarcity, descriptions of desire or fear (and how they will be resolved), sexy looking, flexing and more.
Facebook / Social Media Marketing /
Social Media Market Development is just Marketing made for the specific platform. There are nuances in every each one of them that should be respected so a content, activity or share to have any result or reach.
Personal Development
Personal Development is an endless goal to have. In most cases you will be tricked by the popular and repeated general principles and quotes from famous people. Science is also used to convince people. While it has it some merit, too much diving into it will dehumanize you.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin has bloated in 2021 and it may be just started. In my personal opinion, while it is exchangeable with fiat, it will all the same weaknesses. If we – the people – start trading only with it, we may be truly independent from the governments. Governments, if they were honest, they could use the blockchain to try to minimize manipulation. It is not used just so – the unexposed crimes of the ones in power – could be possible.
One Coin
It went bust in 2020. It was just an example that the new shiny words could be used with the old ideas and concepts. No tool is safe from bad use.
Educational Courses
Too many people are too focused on education and learning new skills. You can never learn it all. Why not – plant our food, plant more trees, be respectful and gentle to one – another, learn how to improve our health and the health of those in need? Then – make money and pursue the endless games of the human in the society. Maybe in another life.
Online Trading /Day-trading
Very few people are good in trading stuff focusing on the daily graphs. It is total gamble.
Once you understand that money is just a psychological idea, you will have a chance to make some, by just embracing some idea yourself and selling it to others. All needs beyond the essential – food and shelter are fake – human made. You need to create one and be able to package it good enough – and that is the contributed by you – psychological dressing.