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 overwhelmed to imagine something better. Every hour you clock in is another dollar padding someone else’s investment 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 profit from your labor while you’re told to “be grateful for a steady job with benefits.”
Promises of promotions and raises 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 argue.
The system was never designed for you.
Redefining Passive Income (Without Patriarchy’s Rules)
What if passive income wasn’t about exploiting others, but about reclaiming your time, your rest, your life?
That might look like:
Community-based businesses that circulate money, not hoard it.
Repeatable systems that continue to amplify your voice 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 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. 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.
Rebel in Small (but Mighty) Steps
You don’t have to quit tomorrow — Begin here:
Notice the extraction → Who is benefiting from your overwhelm and exhaustion?
Create something sovereign → One tiny asset that exists outside capitalism’s leash.
Invest in your liberation → Skills and practices that nourish you, not your boss.
Find your coven → Community is the antidote to capitalism’s isolation.
Your Job Funds Patriarchy. What Funds Your Liberation?
You’re here to build something different. You’re here to create a life that feels like enough—not endless extraction.
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