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Sarcastic Passive Income Advice for the Common Man Meme

This image is a screenshot of a Twitter/X thread containing a viral sarcastic joke. First, verified user Eddy Elfenbein shares a passive income tip: if you invest $3 million into an 8% Treasury bond, you will earn $20,000 per month without doing any work. Another verified user, Young Parik, replies with the sarcastic line "Finally some advice for the common man". The humor comes from the irony that nearly all regular / common people do not have $3 million available to invest, making the original advice completely out of touch and useless for average people, which the reply highlights with sarcasm.
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Eddy Elfenbein @EddyElfenbein · 8h
A great way to make passive income is to take $3 million and buy an 8% Treasury bond.
You'll make $20,000 a month just by doing nothing.

Young Parik @YoungParikPatel · 6h
Finally some advice for the common man

Overview

This image is a screenshot of a Twitter/X thread containing a viral sarcastic joke. First, verified user Eddy Elfenbein shares a passive income tip: if you invest $3 million into an 8% Treasury bond, you will earn $20,000 per month without doing any work. Another verified user, Young Parik, replies with the sarcastic line "Finally some advice for the common man". The humor comes from the irony that nearly all regular / common people do not have $3 million available to invest, making the original advice completely out of touch and useless for average people, which the reply highlights with sarcasm.

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This is a screenshot of real tweets from two verified Twitter/X users, that was reposted to 9Gag as part of a user's old 9Gag meme collection. The original interaction happened on Twitter/X, and this screenshot is circulated as a meme mocking unrealistic out-of-touch passive income advice targeted at regular people.

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