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There are ways to make lots of money with no work and little investment. An example is buying lottery tickets.

The problem, though, is the risk goes up with the potential reward. Your chances of winning the lottery are indistinguishable from zero. But it's still there.

Other ways are writing a hit song, advertising jingle, a bestselling novel, a top selling video game. Ways not to get rich; a “better c” language and compiler?

Those things sound like a lot of work to me. Perhaps enjoyable work, but work all the same.

Writing compilers is certainly not a probable path to getting rich. I do it for other reasons.

Very true, I did exactly this.

My investments during the Covid dip attest to this. There will always be another dip.

> there really is no free

> just buy index funds

Sounds like your contradicting yourself. Sounds like index funds are in fact a free lunch.

You need free money first!

There may be some, but the people who find them have no incentive to tell others.