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- The 4-Hour Workweek's core thesis of creating automated passive income loops is now obsolete and dangerous in the AI era.
- Historical passive income success relied on information asymmetry, outsourcing to cheaper labor, and geographic arbitrage, which AI has flattened.
- AI automates tasks previously done by VAs, content farms, and dropshipping, removing the asymmetry and making passive models a race to the bottom.
- True passive income never existed; it required constant upfront effort, maintenance, and reinvention, as seen with Tim Ferriss himself.
- The new strategy is active leverage: using AI to amplify human judgment, curation, and trust, not eliminate involvement.
- The goal is shifting from 4-hour work weeks to 40 hours of high-leverage work producing 400 hours of impact, as passivity leads to irrelevance and replaceability.