Want to turn your life around by working a job? It's difficult. But beyond just working, there are actually many other ways.

**Arbitrage** is the oldest and most straightforward—buy low where it's cheap, sell high where it's expensive, and profit from the difference. Moving from one place to another is just about capturing that margin. Middlemen essentially monetize information gaps and channel differences.

**Traffic is hard currency**. In an era where everyone carries a phone, posting articles, shooting videos, and live streaming—if you gather enough attention—can be monetized through selling products, advertising, and revenue sharing. Traffic directly converts into real money.

**Scarcity is always valuable**. Take stock of what you have that "others don't"—unique skills, exclusive connections, special channels. Having what others lack is a trump card, and you hold the pricing power.

**Commission models are compound interest machines**. No matter how hard one person works, there's a ceiling, but earning commissions from others' profits is different. The larger the team and the smoother the system, the more your earnings grow in a compounding manner.

**Regional differences are invisible gold mines**. Ordinary local goods, when shipped to places that lack those items, can become rare finds, and the profits can exceed expectations.

**Cognitive differences make you an insider**. Spending enough time in an industry, you'll know much more than outsiders—this is capital. Conducting training, consulting, or building paid communities—knowledge can be directly monetized.

**Brand equals premium pricing**. The same product with a brand label can be sold for several times more. Once a brand is established and trust is built, the product naturally becomes a premium signboard, and profits increase accordingly.

**Scale effects are the most brutal**. Once sales volume increases, even thin profit margins per item are not a concern because large quantities mean huge profits. It also allows for upstream price negotiations, reducing costs further.

**Time difference is a lazy mode**. Moving popular foreign projects back to the domestic market, or copying successful models from first-tier cities to second- and third-tier cities—being a "mover" is a very stable strategy.