What I Learned After a Year On Medium

Bih
5 min readAug 28, 2021

Hint: It’s NOT how to make a $4,000 a month

As I began to focus more on manifesting good income on Medium, I realized that my resistance to following the ‘tried and true’ path to passive income wasn’t because I was lazy, it’s because I was focused.‘

How to get 1000–2000 views on your article’

‘How to earn $100 per week’

‘How I make $4,000 every month’

These kinds of articles fill my Medium feed on a daily basis. Based on this alone, it seems like everyone is multimillionaire, making money online everyday with ease. Everyone knows how to become a multimillionaire in a year. In our capitalistic society, these people are heralded as a shining beacon of hope and inspiration. And I used to be inspired. I used to read every article that came up on my page. But now, I’m just annoyed.

We live in a fast paced, consumerist culture. Everyone is trying to make ‘passive income’ to meet the rising cost of living in America, because God forbid that they’re employers just pay them more. Everyone is making money in ’24 hours’ and here’s how you can do it too! Everyone is telling you ‘making money online is easy, you’re just making this…

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Bih
Bih

Written by Bih

| College Student | Baby finance enthusiast | Here to write and learn about money and self improvement.