There's not much easy money for anybody really. My plan would be to use my wage as a base. When i have paid off my mortgage i will buy another house and rent it out to cover the mortgage on that one and repeat.

Crypto is one of my long term plans. I have a portfolio of a few small pieces but I hope to see STEEM hitting a hundred dollars at some stage. I love the site so enjoy trying to accumulate more anyway. I love to write and dive into learning new things so the site is great for me.

Shares with dividends are great. Don't have any myself but would hope to pick up some in the future when i have the money. You get scheduled payments and if the stocks are good then they should gain in value at the same time.

It depends on where your skills are. If you don't have specialized skills it just comes down to handwork. I only work in a shop but am grafting as hard as i can now so that i will be comfortable while im still young.

Easy or hard depends on what you have. Income from what I now understand is based on how much wealth you already have (this determines how much value you can bring). A company, a platform like Steem, or anything really, is going to want you to bring value to in. In exchange for you bringing value to it, you can be rewarded in something.  This can be money, this can be prestige.

By just asking the question you asked, you progressed the discussion, which added value to my blog post. As a reward I will upvote you. See how that works?

The more wealth you have or build in yourself through personal development, the more you can bring to everyone and everything else. So if you read more, if you exercise a lot, if you make a lot of friends, if you just are in the right place at the right time, you may know something before the rest of us do or better than the rest of us, and so now you have something we want and maybe you can get paid for that?

If you're someone who already has done a lot of personal development, who already has a lot to offer, then figure out places where you can add a small fee and there you go, a new income stream. This isn't to say it's easy to do, nothing comes without sacrifice. It is merely to say that over time, you can secure one income stream, then two, then three, then you have more than you can track, and from there it becomes about cash flow, how much revenue are you bringing in a month? $1000? $5000? $10,000? And how much are you spending on ads or professional development?

I look forward to SMTs. SMTs will allow any of us to begin building our wealth in ways we cannot currently imagine. Steemit allows us to currently build our wealth by adding value to the Steem platform. We currently achieve this by generating content, or by contributing to the discussion, or by curating. I do all of these three tasks each day.

At one point in time I averaged 6 blog posts a day. Now I post around 2 or 3 blog posts a day. Even when I posted 6 a day, I would comment 10+ times a day to build discussions around each of my blog posts. If I never post another blog again I can comment on the blog posts of other more successful bloggers and make sure my comments are of the quality of a strong blog post. If I never contribute content again I can buy Steem Power and curate to generate income of some amount each month. If Steem were to go away then I have other avenues to produce income, in the crypto space and outside of it.

yes the risk factor for staking is big. i should take this into account. im 24 and im spending alot of time building my passive income portfolio. what are some stock you like? i like JNJ and clorox for long dividend growth!