Your 9-5 is Someone Else’s Passive Income.
The Patriarchy Loves Your 9-5
Let’s not sugarcoat it: your 9-5 is the patriarchy’s favorite tool. It keeps you too tired to question the rules, too broke to walk away, and too distracted to imagine something better. Every hour you clock in is another dollar padding someone else’s yacht fund.
This isn’t personal failure. It’s a rigged system. A system built by men in boardrooms to extract your energy and call it “security.” Spoiler: it’s not security. It’s control.
Why Capitalism Thrives on Your Exhaustion
Here’s how the cycle works:
CEOs, founders, and shareholders profit from your labor while you’re told to “be grateful for a steady job.”
Promotions and raises are dangled like carrots to keep you sprinting on the hamster wheel.
Burnout is normalized, especially for women and marginalized folks—because if you’re too exhausted, you won’t have the energy to resist.
The system was never designed for your freedom. It was designed for their wealth.
Redefining Passive Income (Without Patriarchy’s Rules)
The term “passive income” has been hijacked by finance bros and hustle culture. But what if we reclaimed it? What if passive income wasn’t about grinding harder but about reclaiming your time, your rest, your life?
That might look like:
Community-based businesses that circulate money, not hoard it.
Digital creations that honor your voice and keep earning long after you’ve closed your laptop.
Ethical investing that doesn’t exploit others.
Creative work that nourishes you and ripples out into the world.
This isn’t about becoming a boss babe in stilettos crushing your competition. It’s about dismantling the idea that your only worth is in your productivity.
From Worker Bee to System-Smasher
The most radical thing you can do is stop playing by rules designed to keep you small. Instead of asking “How do I get ahead at work?” start asking:
What if my time belonged to me?
What if I built wealth that wasn’t rooted in exploitation?
What if rest itself was resistance?
When you stop feeding a patriarchal system that thrives on your burnout, you start creating cracks in the foundation. And cracks bring collapse.
Rebel in Small (but Mighty) Steps
You don’t have to quit tomorrow to start smashing. Begin here:
Notice the extraction → Where are you being drained without fair return?
Create something sovereign → One tiny asset that exists outside capitalism’s leash.
Invest in your liberation → Skills, tools, and practices that serve you, not your boss.
Find your coven → Community is the antidote to capitalism’s isolation.
Tiny rebellions stack up. Every refusal, every act of creation, every nap taken instead of grinding—it’s all resistance.
Your Job Funds Patriarchy. What Funds Your Liberation?
Your 9-5 is someone else’s passive income. Their comfort. Their empire. Their yacht.
But you? You’re here to build something different. Something softer, freer, more just. You’re here to create a life that feels like enough—not endless extraction.
💌 Every Sunday I send a love letter for the rebels, the cycle-breakers, the ones building business outside capitalism’s rules. Come join the movement.
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