passive income ruined my life

passive income ruined my life. well really just the way i think about money. i spent years doing web dev and design. i thought i had to work more to make more. more code. more pixels. more hours. i was just a highly paid worker. then i started something new. it has nothing to do with code or design. i actually wouldn't even be able to do the work myself. so i made a rule: i am not allowed to do the labor. i hired people. i built a system. last month i made $5k. i didn't write any code. i didn't design anything. i spent half the month in bed while the system ran. it is like a drug. your brain gets used to it. the first time you make $100 while sleeping it feels like magic. then that becomes normal. then you need $500 a day to feel that same high. your standards for freedom just keep moving up. i still do some design work if i like the project. but i can't imagine my life without passive income now. once you stop trading time for survival, you are ruined for a normal life. you aren't just a worker anymore. you've just seen how the world actually works.