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> working for any SP500 company will easily get you the same amount of money in less than a year If you live in the US. Which I'm (maybe wrongly) going to assu
by eafkuor 6y ago
> working for any SP500 company will easily get you the same amount of money in less than a year
If you live in the US. Which I'm (maybe wrongly) going to assume the author doesn't. 100k dollars is a life changing amount of money in a lot of countries.
- vladmihalcea 6y ago> Which I'm (maybe wrongly) going to assume the author doesn't. I'm not living in the US. I live in Romania. In Europe, salaries are not as high as the ones in California. But then, even in the US, the Silicon Valley salaries are much higher than in other states. The great thing about selling products is that there is no upper boundary to how much money you can make. So, over time, you can end up making 250k $ from a single book. The advantage of passive income is that you can use your time to create new products, which, in turn, can generate more income. It's not easy, but it's not impossible either.
- eafkuor 6y agoOh man, I completely agree with you. People here or on reddit who are constantly talking about US salaries and cost of life forget that there's other parts of the world where people are programmers. I live in Poland and a one-off 100k USD as a side income in a year would absolutely change my life. I am _not_ exaggerating.
- thesz 6y agoUS dollar is a prefix currency sign. All your dollar sums should look like $<sum> (Euro is also prefix, BTW). Compare [1] and [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_leu#List_of_current_banknotes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_leu#List_of_current_b... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one-hundred-dollar_bill#Large_size_notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one-hundred-doll... Sorry for nitpicking, it really bothers me when such small and easily correctable error continues.