MAKE MONEY WITHOUT WORK

A No-Work Income?
The Internet and the
classified ads in weekly
newspapers and the back
of magazines on the
newsstands of the world
announce in large letters
that You Too can make
money at home Without
Working! Splashy Internet
and full-page magazine ads
show a happy couple int
heir 30s or even in their 50s
with a touch of grey in
their hair, floating on a
colorful inflated raft in the
sea of the coast of Mexico.
All of their time is free
time because they struck it
rich in the No-Work
Income Rush. Most of this
is propaganda to persuade
- or manipulate -
individuals and couples to
spend money on some type
of get-rich-quick program
that rarely pays off.
Individuals that invest
money in any number of
financial products, stocks,
real estate, and several
other items can sometimes
make a fortune, but less
often than most people
imagine. There are a few
ways of making money
without working, though
likely just enough to "get
by":
Company Retirement
Funds - Work for a
company for enough years
and retire with a pension.
These pensions are
reducing in some areas and
may be reduced in the
2010s, while some
companies have eliminated
them. The hero pilot of the
Hudson River offered in
interviews after he landed
his plane safely in that
body of water that
pilots' (and his own)
retirement income had
already been reduced by
the company.
Social Security Varieties-
In America, SS, SSI, SSDI are
funds that pay retirees and
disabled persons in certain
classifications. During the
Reagan Presidential
Administration, the
majority of recipients (my
former patients being a
sample) of SSDI and SSI
were cut off and had to
reapply. During the Bush
Administration, additional
people were cut off.
Retirement age for
collecting full SS
retirement is increasing
steadily, according to a
plan already established,
but can be increased faster.
Any of the Social Security
designations are not the
best way to make money
without working. Certain
companies sell books that
outline how to collect
from these funds, but the
price of the book itself is
not worth the information
provided. SSI and SSDI
processes and cases have
become increasingly
tedious and stressful,
because steadily increasing
numbers of them spend
much time in the courts.
Public Assistance-
"Welfare" is not a really
profitable means to
securing income without
work. The amount of time
and effort required to
prove need and to "be
followed-up on" regularly
and to re-prove need every
six months are all
exhausting to the point of
producing mental illness in
some of the recipients.
Clinical Trials- Near
teaching hospitals, major
universities, and other
medical research facilities,
individuals may volunteer
for week-long or longer
inpatient participation in
clincial research projects,
including trials of new
treatments. This is a short-
term income of up to a
few thousand dollars, if the
volunteer qualifies for the
research. he or she spends
free time in the clinic or on
a ward floor, and often has
blood drawn several dozen
times within a 24-hour
period. Paperwork is sizable
and volunteers are now
asked to permit their DNA
to be kept and used in
future research. Still, it is a
possibility for income.
(Selling blood is another
version of this medium,
also short-term. People
read or watch TV while
donating in my town.) See
this link for an astounding
war-time version of such
clinical trials: Starving for
K-Rations.
Inheritance - Some
people do, in fact, inherit
large amounts of money
and invest it very shrewdly.
All their time becomes free
time, especially if they hire
honest people to handle
their finances - and the
people remain honest.
Work Can Feel Like
Bondage.
CHAIN GANG. Arthur
Griffiths: "Secrets of the
Prison-House - Gaol Studies
and Sketches". 1894.
(Public domain)
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More Non-Working
Domestic Arrangements
Individuals occasionally
marry a partner - or
become a non-marriage
partner of someone - in
order to access that
partner's income.
Sometimes this results in a
sizable amount of monthly
income or allowance and
sometimes it results in
none. On the other hand,
some spouses and partners
feel that their significant
others linked up with them
expressly to use them for
financial support when
that is actually not the
case. The love of money
and the lack of money can
both cause a lot of
problems.
In the 2010s after the
Recession of 2008 - 2009,
America is finding more of
the Depression Era type of
room renting everywhere
than was the norm before
the turn of this century. If
you remember films of the
1930s that depicted three
families living in a two-
room dwelling in Russia,
with sheets hung to form
additional walls, then you
can see the vision a few
people have for the future
of the American 2010s.
Regardless, in these
arrangements both in
Russia and USA during the
1930s, one or two people
in a large group might be
able to work and bring
home money, while the
rest did whatever they
could to earn a dollar or a
ruble, and some did
nothing and were
supported by the group.
This replayed in 1980s
Siberia, where railroad
workers and teachers could
not be paid for a full year,
but the grandparents and
youth in the extended
families received small,
usual, government-funded
student and aged stipends.
In this case, however,
working adults worked and
made no money at all; but
the non-working people
made money and