As for the rest of your comment, please read my comment again. It says nothing about realtors about whom I know too little to say much. It is concerned with the meme that people seem to earn money "on a day's worth of work". I think it is in the same category as that investors earn money only by "skimming off" other people's "productive work". The transaction is only one moment in a long chain of preparation and risk. Whether it takes place over a second or a month does not matter. To make another outdated reference to the last century, Michael Jordan didn't earn his millions by winning this or that particular game for his team. It was years and years of preparation and taking the risk of ending up like the other 99.99 percent of ballplayers, i.e. with little money to show for his efforts.
The only job I can immediately think of which could fit the description of lots of money for very little work is that of Jamal's contestant in Slumdog Millionaire ;) And even there you can argue it is a long chain and that the money is earned through attracting the attention of many people.
As for the rest of your comment, please read my comment again. It says nothing about realtors about whom I know too little to say much. It is concerned with the meme that people seem to earn money "on a day's worth of work". I think it is in the same category as that investors earn money only by "skimming off" other people's "productive work". The transaction is only one moment in a long chain of preparation and risk. Whether it takes place over a second or a month does not matter. To make another outdated reference to the last century, Michael Jordan didn't earn his millions by winning this or that particular game for his team. It was years and years of preparation and taking the risk of ending up like the other 99.99 percent of ballplayers, i.e. with little money to show for his efforts.
The only job I can immediately think of which could fit the description of lots of money for very little work is that of Jamal's contestant in Slumdog Millionaire ;) And even there you can argue it is a long chain and that the money is earned through attracting the attention of many people.