The Only Way to Make Money

Outside of theft and burglary, the only way to make money is to convince other people to give you their money.

Honest Ways

There are two honest ways of convincing people to give you their money:

• make useful things
• perform useful services

Dishonest Ways

There are also dishonest ways of convincing people to give you their money:

• make useless things and swindle people to pay for it
• perform useless services and swindle people to pay for it

Be Useful

You and your creations can be useful in some of the following ways:

• treat and prevent pain
• produce sustainable food, clothing, shelter, transportation, manufacturing, materials, and energy
• enhance collective human wisdom
• promote peace
• distribute knowledge and wisdom
• allocate talent/capital for human/animal/plant flourishing
• fill hearts with inspiration, fear, laughter, anger, melancholy, etc.
• create tools for creators
• support useful people