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by tim-projects 9 days ago
I can already think of 5 jobs this doesn't apply to in the slightest.
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These are "ways to get paid", but "jobs" implicitly may or may not be relevant to the topic. If there's no game, politics, or sales aspect whatsoever, which is rarely but not never the case, then it's kind of irrelevant.
>These are "ways to get paid"

The link literally says "There are three ways to make a living."

Seems like a strange correction, although we're both correct, because the title of the page says "Three Ways to Get Paid", but the difference is negligible.

A job is one way to make a living, in which these ways may apply, but a job doesn't necessarily have to pay at all and can be entirely volunteer, if we're being pedantic. Jobs are often very bad ways to make a living these days.

There are slightly more than three ways to make a living.
and they are?
Day trader Garbage collector Zoo keeper Tennis player Lifeguard
They're all making a living by telling people the truth that want the truth. The more money they make the more they deviate being solidly in camp #2.

It's an aphorism. I enjoyed it. It's not a proof of the Universe.

I didn't realise this was Facebook
- Day traders: Usually get rich "lying" — as influencers. As I hear, very few successful traders have day trading as their only income (and very few are successful), so they supplement it with other income streams. And those income streams, when relevant to daytrading, tend not to inform audiences that they'll best earn maybe 20% per year, and maybe only be able to live off capital above $100-500k.

- Garbage collector, zoo keeper, lifeguard: As honest jobs, you can hopefully make a living doing these. To leverage these skills to become rich.. I don't know, but would imagine there might be some big lies along the way.

- Tennis player: How do they become rich, endorsements? Does associating yourself with a racket, shoe or energy drink count as telling truth or lying? Since ads aren't an analysis of the racket's technical properties, nor its contribution to your playing... I'd say it's lying.

gambling, option 2, option 2, biological gambling, option 2
Fruit picker.