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Re:I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction... by emteycz on Thursday April 28, 2022 @06:08AM (#31190719)
I can hear my author friends gathering to beat you with hardbacks at the suggestion they're wage-slaving, too!

More seriously, I agree it's hard to write a book - but I don't think you can claim it's just like normal job when you wrote it in 3 months and it keeps earning you money for years and it's more than a full-time job would earn you.

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Re:I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction... by pjc50 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @08:23AM (#31191630)
> I don't think you can claim it's just like normal job when you wrote it in 3 months and it keeps earning you money for years and it's more than a full-time job would earn you.

No, but that definitely puts you in the 1% of authors!

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Re:I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction... by emteycz on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:01AM (#31193294)
Not me, unfortunately... And I live in a low CoL area, so my friends aren't rich either
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