You are totally wrong. Rich people know how to invest their money and earn a good and big amount of money yearly, monthly even weekly. With investing, you can earn money without doing anything. Passive income is very good and you can have free time to do anything you want,
I don't think that investing means passive income
Unless you talk about bank deposits, of course. But that can hardly be called income in the first place since the interest will be on par with inflation in the majority of cases. Profitable investment ("big amount of money yearly, monthly, even weekly") means that you should be actively searching investment opportunities every day since no one can guarantee you that the investments which bring you profits today ("big amount of money...") won't start making you losses tomorrow. As Alice has said, you must run as fast as you can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast