The idea with most businesses is that you invest in creating the machine, so eventually it doesn’t require 100% of your attention to get paid every day. Either because you hired and trained someone to do parts of it, or automated parts of it, or invested enough capital that it doesn’t require as much ‘sweat’ every day.

Something that requires you show up and do the same work every day to make the same money is generally referred to as ‘a job’. In this case, one with no real job security or safety net either.