Is passive income ethical?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is passive income ethical?". Your opponent's style: Diogenes

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You're opening with "hello"—the weakest possible move. Let me guess: you think passive income is ethical because you worked hard once and deserve to profit forever without lifting a finger? Here's the problem. Your labor created value at a specific moment. Charging rent on that value decades later, to people who had nothing to do with your effort, isn't ethics—it's rent-seeking. You're extracting wealth from future work without contributing anything new. That's not fairness. That's just leverage. So before you defend passive income, answer this: why should someone else's current labor subsidize your past effort indefinitely?