this option is not really like the other 3 listed, since it's a separate category of passive income and is non-exclusionary unlike the rest.
One should always be investing any excess income anyway, regardless of what path one chooses to follow. Unfortunately, the risk of having _only_ investment income to sustain you is that you cannot make risky investments, and so must have large amount of capital to produce less risky but more guaranteed returns. FIRE comes to mind when one goes down this course of action.
The joke (or maybe better 'punchline') is that the new moniker 'creator', which I read as a more palpable synonym for 'influencer', is really just one of, and as such /any/ of, many other things just by another name.
In the case of: 4. Invest your savings and live off of gains.
I think the joke is some of these creators may just be those people, filling the time by creating.
It's an answer to the question, "I wanna start creating but where does (fill in favorite creator) get the money for the equipment or the time for all this? Why am /i/ struggling?
Ala, peggy hills bookstore in king of the hill.
Peggy struggling: how did you ever sell enough books to pay the rent?
Former owner: o I inherited money whose interest covered the rent.
this option is not really like the other 3 listed, since it's a separate category of passive income and is non-exclusionary unlike the rest.
One should always be investing any excess income anyway, regardless of what path one chooses to follow. Unfortunately, the risk of having _only_ investment income to sustain you is that you cannot make risky investments, and so must have large amount of capital to produce less risky but more guaranteed returns. FIRE comes to mind when one goes down this course of action.