介绍： Forget Work. Passive Income Is the New American Dream.
Greg Keogh couldn’t stand commuting, office attire and feeling depleted at the end of a workday. To find a way out of his corporate 9-to-5, he decided to break into the world of so-called passive income.
His escape hatch came from a chance conversation w...

介绍： Forget Work. Passive Income Is the New American Dream.
Greg Keogh couldn’t stand commuting, office attire and feeling depleted at the end of a workday. To find a way out of his corporate 9-to-5, he decided to break into the world of so-called passive income.
His escape hatch came from a chance conversation with a dog owner who was excited to have found a bigger-than-normal lint roller. He designed one nearly as wide as a paper-towel roll and put it on Amazon, where sales took off. Seven years later, he works on it two hours or less in a typical month and personally nets about $50,000 to $115,000 a year.
If the mythos of the American dream is to work hard and get ahead, it’s being eclipsed for some by the dream of not having to work at all.
It’s not that the fantasy is new. But it is gaining fuel from a growing feeling that traditional work is broken. In March, the shares of U.S. workers who were satisfied with their pay and opportunities for promotion were the lowest they have been since the New York Fed started asking in surveys in 2014.
On social media, passive-income obsessives test out eccentric schemes. Some seekers make real money and win back time. But many ideas thrown around online are duds or, worse, scams.
Just as much as passive income is a literal goal, it is an idealized state of being where a job is optional and time is plentiful. In practice, many who chase it end up working awfully hard at trying to not have to work.
生词好句
1.depleted 英 [dɪˈpliːtɪd] 美 [dɪˈpliːtɪd] adj. （本文指人）能量被耗尽的，（资源、库存、能量）被耗尽的
I came home feeling completely depleted after another day of back-to-back meetings.一整天一个会接一个会的开，回到家时整个人都被掏空了。
2.find a way out 找到一条出路
3.corporate 9-to-5 朝九晚五的职场生活，按部就班的企业白领生活
4.break into 闯入，打入，进入一个行业
近义词辨析：break into vs. enter
break into是指闯入、打入、进入一个行业，相比普通的 enter，break into更强调进入一个门槛较高、竞争激烈、原本不容易进入的领域。