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If you have lots and lots and lots of money, you can find a reasonably safe investment that will yield lots of money for almost no work. You can also write one hugely popular book or song and live on the royalties. That will however take some initial effort (and talent). Sjö (talk) 13:44, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
If you live in the United States almost definitely not; the U.S. ranks quite low on rankings of social mobility like the Gini coefficient and other similar measures; what that means is that, unless you already have a sick amount of money, in the U.S. you stand little chance of getting a sick amount of money even if you work really hard. If you aren't working at all, you stand far little chance. If you're already born into money, you'll probably keep it, though. --Jayron3215:22, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]