Talk:Passive income

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In your example, you stated that we could generate passive income from "Interest Income paid from bank deposits. Rental income from real estate/property. Royalties from writing a book."

There needs to be some distinction between residual income and other passive income. While investment "doesn't require work" (it's money making money) most royalty kinds of work does. The schedule of work is just different. The ultimate sales of a book represents compensation for the work that went into creating it, paid out as the value is extracted rather than during the activity of creation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.92.11.130 (talk) 16:43, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Now, there are HYIPs, Auto Surf programs, Online Mutual Fund, Online Investment and all these programs are running online.

Note: HYIP stands for High Yield Investment Program

Could we consider these programs as passive income generator?

Thank you.

Wow, I think that's really pushing the edge e.g. if someone's job is to watch over a fully automated process ("push this button if that red light ever comes on" ala Homer Simpson) but the process is so good they never do anything, is their salary "passive income"? For the purpose of this article? No. But maybe you could ask the IRS (if you're in the US, maybe they'd give you a private letter ruling) or your local tax authority (are you in India?). Whatever you find out could make an interesting section on Autosurf (or maybe even Click fraud) Ewlyahoocom 10:38, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Removed advertisement from page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.147.58.13 (talk) 18:09, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Removed more advertisements from this page. Links to blogs full of ads promoting networking marketing schemes are not appropriate on Wikipedia. 70.228.80.78 (talk) 21:27, 28 December 2007 (UTC)