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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by asenkyr on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @08:39AM (#32578611)
He did not say it explicitly, but I think that it is implied in this part of his comment:

> being skimmed off by landlords who just lazily sit around doing nothing productive

I would argue, that doing something that is not easy and taking risks is the opposite of lazily sitting around and doing nothing productive.

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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @12:04PM (#32581293)
The only real risk is temporary expense and inconvenience if a tenant turns out to be bad.

Even if it's not possible to eliminate that risk, there are various not particularly challenging ways to minimise it.

On a return-for-hours-worked-actively metric, being a landlord can be extremely easy.

And you can trade off money for more time by handing over more or less all of it to agencies and/or informal support.

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