Whether your multiple streams of income are from being a well-off entrepreneur or being an investor, they're still dependent on the exploitation of labour being done by people who most likely don't have multiple streams than you do.

You're only able to make multiple streams of income and escape from a life of purely your own labour because other people are trapped in that same life of doing labour to generate income for you.

I specify well-off entrepreneurs because there are some entrepreneurs who have small-scale operations where they don't hire other people to work for them, where they do all the work themselves like making a specific product or line of products from their home or so.

But even then, they have an incentive to source the cheapest materials for inputs, and some of the inputs/supplies they use come from cheap labour.

This is isn't a criticism of them btw.

And of course not every entrepreneur pays low wages, but the point is that they still rely on people working for them (the same life they wanted to escape from) in order to make a living.

They require a particular dynamic to exist; they simply don't want to be on the other end.

When people are criticising the entrepreneur life, it's sometimes with mocking the ones who actually struggle and do work, saying they aren't about the hustle life because they don't want to be stressing themselves out and worrying about the fate of their hypothetical business.

And then it gives rise to the glorification of investors who get income from investments. Some of these are workers themselves, but petit-bourgeois workers who have the ability to invest a portion of their income.

I have a problem with the glorification of entrepreneurship, primarily because it relies on exploitation of labour while being presented as some liberation from labour exploitation.

The other problem is that it pressures people to believe they need to be constantly productive.

At the same time, I have a problem with the glorification of investments. I consider it to be even worse, as it glorifies the aspiration of making a lot of income without doing labour, ignoring that the income is still being generated by people who have to do labour.

And these things are all connected. Underpaying workers enables high profit margins. If workers were being paid properly, they wouldn't need to be looking for alternative sources of income apart from their own labour just to survive.

The answer to escaping poverty and labour exploitation shouldn't be reliant on exploiting others' labour and possibly subjecting them to that same poverty.

In an economy that primarily served the workers, being a parasite who simply profits from others' labour wouldn't be such an attractive option.

Imagine being proud of wanting to maintain Capitalism. https://twitter.com/AndreMillwood/status/1335565800791568384