In what way did I say that? if anything, I'm maximizing passivity.

You can live off stock dividends a lot longer if you lower your standard of living. Your comment is totally orthogonal.

> In what way did I say that?

That would be this bit here:

> simply selling their time at the maximum rate

Exactly. Not very passive.

I never contended that the consulting part is passive. It absolutely takes consistent time every month. It's the dividend revenue which is passive.

Ecactly. You had to work first. Work I've put in on projects now earns passive income, too. So there are other ways.