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Five Writing Topics That Still Print Money — Here’s How Much They’ve Made Me
Show me the Monet.
1. Predictions
People are wary about the future and pay fortune tellers tens of thousands to know what it holds for them.
They subscribe to expensive services pretending to know where stocks and crypto prices will be in 3 months.
They watch hundreds of hours of YouTube videos to learn how to predict the stock market.
And they click on articles that predict the next year, or twenty years from now.
Predictions work well because readers either want to have their own predictions validated or learn about the topic if they’re not well-versed in it.
Avoid the low-hanging fruit and focus on broad trends and how they will shape future events.
2. Work and Jobs
Workers feel alienated by purposeless functions that gave birth to “lazy girl job” or “quiet quitting” in a soulless AI-replacement corporate era. 25% of young workers plan to quit their jobs in 2025.
