Every income claim deserves a cause of death
We autopsy passive income claims
Public datasets, court documents, and our own published profit-and-loss — versus the screenshots the gurus show you.
One email per autopsy. No courses, no coaching — ever.
- Autopsy #001≤ $1,000/yr70 MLM income disclosures, analyzed by FTC staff: most participants made $1,000 or less per year — before expenses.Read the autopsy
- Autopsy #00297%of day traders who persisted 300-plus sessions lost money — every entrant in an entire market, tracked.Read the autopsy
- Autopsy #00321 monthsthe average time to a blog’s first dollar, per the best available survey — and the base rates are worse.Read the autopsy
The docket
- We Read 70 MLM Income Disclosures So You Don't Have ToRead the autopsy
VerdictMLM participation is a documented net cost for most participants, not passive income.
- The 97% Club: What Happened to Every Day Trader in an Entire MarketRead the autopsy
VerdictAmong traders who persisted 300-plus sessions, 97% lost money — persistence measurably did not convert into a living.
- Start a Blog, Earn in Months, They Said. The Survey Says 21 of Them.Read the autopsy
VerdictThe best available survey puts a blog's first dollar at ~21 months, and independent base rates say most pages never get traffic at all.
- The Average Etsy Seller Grosses $156 a Month. Before Etsy's Cut.Read the autopsy
VerdictThe mean active Etsy seller grosses ~$156/month before a 24.2% platform take, on a contracting marketplace, with no documented zero-labor path.
Our method
- Step 01
Steelman the claim
The claim gets stated at full strength before the examination — if it dies, it dies healthy.
- Step 02
Pull primary evidence
Public datasets, regulator filings, court records — every figure cited inline with an access date.
- Step 03
Publish the verdict
Claim, finding, confidence — answer-first, with what the evidence does not support stated too.
- Step 04
State the reversal terms
Every autopsy lists what evidence would change its verdict. Falsifiable or it does not ship.
Our own receipts
We run the experiments we autopsy
We operate our own automation experiments — including a print-on-demand store of the exact kind examined in the print-on-demand autopsy. Starting with its first full month, its profit-and-loss gets published here monthly: revenue, fees, costs, hours. Including the losing months, uncropped.
Site revenue to date$0as of July 2026 — by design, stated in advance
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