Before water systems were modernized, people had to take buckets to the river or well each day and bring water back to their homes. Burke Hedges explains in his book "Parable of the Pipeline", that going to work each day is a similar phenomenon. If you have a job or profession where you have to trade your time and talent for money, you basically go to work each day to "fill a bucket" with money.

Getting a better job won't solve this problem. It only gives you a bigger bucket! The minute you stop working, you stop earning money.

Wouldn't it be smarter to build a pipeline and have money flowing into your life even when you have stopped working?