The flip side of that is: the Bobs of this world sometimes have seen enough to (i) not be fooled by survivorship bias into believing their way is the best way a

The flip side of that is: the Bobs of this world sometimes have seen enough to (i) not be fooled by survivorship bias into believing their way is the best way and (ii) spot patterns in what many Alices do and many people trying to be like Alices don't And there are a lot of fake Alices. I mean, I'm bombarded with ads from people who apparently spend five hours a week making five figures per month... and then apparently spend the rest of their life promoting their ability to offer one on one "coaching" sessions to be just like them at rates which don't really make much sense if they're making $x,xxx per hour on their real gig. Which links back to the original post: the people who do make five figures per month for five hours a week reselling stuff tend to not talk about it. Or at least not nearly as much as the people cosplaying that lifestyle or the people whose interest in such businesses is purely academic.