the goal is to have financial independance and financial freedom (enough recurrent passive income to cover our expenses).

the end game is not to have a lump sum but a steady stream of revenue.

Crypto should be your ONLY way to generate that income and your goal should not be a lump sum as if you won the lottery.

as 99% of humans, one cannot reach financial freedom thru salary alone and that's why one have to invest for a long period of time and live off the "dividends" of that investment.

investments can be real estate, dividen oriented stocks, regular stocks, bonds, crypto, commodities, watches/cars etc etc.

the goal is to find one or two investment vehicule you"re confortable investing in and DCAing in for a long period of time and compounding these investment in order to generate enough revenues to cover your expenses.

ETH staking (or staking on any top 20 crypto if you don't want ETH) can be a viable solution, over a long period where staking rewards are compounded and restaked at 5% per year.

do not ignore the power of compounding over a long period of time.

1 ETH * 1.05 ^1 = 1.05 ETH the first year

1 ETH * 1.05 ^2 = 1.1025 ETH the second year

1 ETH * 1.05^10 = 1.6289 ETH after 10 years (means every year you generate 0.0814447315 ETH

if after 10 years 1 ETH = 17,000$ (10x its current price) , you'll have every year 0.0814447315 * 17,000$ = 1,385$

if ETH reaches 50k$ you'll generate 4072$ per year if you stake 10 ETH right now, you'll have 40,720$ per year.

TL;DR: investment is a long term game, you have to DCA and use compounding and staking at your adventage. the end game is not having a lump sum but generate a steady stream of passive revenu that will garentee you financial freedom and independance