This post is a response to a question initially posed on Quora, and can also be accessed via “https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-make-100-every-day-as-an-11-year-old/answer/Antonio-Amaral-1“

An 11-year-old trying to generate $100 daily is a travesty of epically dysfunctional proportions for society.

That’s a friggin horror show straight out of a Dickens novel.

An 11-year-old should be playing dress-up and letting their imaginations soar, not concocting survival schemes.

As much as I can feel compassion towards whatever circumstances motivate you in this direction, I’m also highly disgusted by them.

This question makes me want to pull out guillotines and give billionaires free haircuts below the neck.

The problem you face is that you have no leverage to make that amount of money daily.

That means you will have to spend every waking moment focused on generating that amount of money by performing services for people who will treat you like dirt. Many won’t even pay you for a day’s work because you cannot force them to pay you.

You will become an embittered sociopath by the time you hit twenty. That will make you able to justify ripping off everyone you encounter as you learn to treat people like marks and evolve as a predator in society.

I don’t know what solutions might be available, but selling lemonade won’t work. Door-to-door sales of products might work, but that exposes you to predators.

I’m not even sure it’s legal for you to earn money in an employment capacity. Laws in your area may be different, and if you’re American, child labour is just around the corner with a Trump presidency.

Even worse is that making yourself available to generate revenue exposes you to the ugliest of predators who would choose to use you as a playtoy for inhumanly sick and twisted people.

Damn, but this question severely bothers me.

You’re a frigging child.

You should have a childhood with friends, playing ball outside in the sun at the park with other kids, not trying to make money.

Please try talking to a counsellor at your school because the way you’re thinking right now means you’re giving up your childhood and almost literally guaranteeing you’ll be chewed up and spit out by your early twenties. You’re nearly guaranteeing you won’t make it to your thirties.

Please talk to someone who cares and can help you because there’s nothing anyone online can do for you — and if anyone offers, you can’t be sure they’re not a wolf sizing you up as a tasty meal.