There are ways to earn money online, and generate an automatic residual income, here is a list of sites on this blog that is really helpful for getting a decent residual income. These are not like paid to click or paid to read sites(which are mostly scams), they are more automatic eg getting paid to just use an email or to post your own links on forums and blogs, freelance, etc. If you get a few refs you can get plenty of automatic income.
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