Almost half the year of 2026 is behind us. While I am grateful to be a wage slave having collected 6 months of salary from work, I am actually not happy because active income is derived from trading time for money, seeing stakeholders' faces, dealing with crappy work portfolios and worse of all, taking a toil on mind, soul and body and being taxable. Real joy emanates from passive income streaming into my bank account automatically from doing nothing, other than owning a tiny piece of income-producing cake such as properties, businesses, REITs or stocks. What’s best? Dividends are tax-free. ...