That's a lie!
It's actual work!
You don't type or tap two times a day and you're rich!
With freelancing you have a client, you have a deadline, you have to search for clients, you must have skills and knowledge.
With trading, you pray and you push a few buttons, you're either rich and come here bragging or you lose your money and you're...back on freelancing.
Not necessarily, freelancers existed well before the internet, it's just that recently people associate the term with online jobs.
Uber drivers are freelancers also.