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This is 100% the case, and it's not just dropshipping. A lot of popular "side income" plays are like this. It's a meme in trading subreddits that the most successful day traders are the ones who sell courses on day trading.

(Note: Not critiquing the idea of side hustles or diversifying income streams in general—just making an observation about some specific dynamics in these communities.)

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Yeah exactly, Financial Independence/Retire Early (FIRE) bloggers/authors are another. Inevitably in any sort of thing you'll have people who are storytellers who parlay storytelling + the thing they're into (which sounds fun) so agreed on not critiquing. One might want to be aware of how much of that is going around though, at least in calibrating expectations to reality.

Yeah, those guys who want to retire early on dividend payments from companies whose products they condemn because consumerism is horrible.

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