Getting paid for what someone else does is sometimes known as “residual income”. Multilevel/network marketing schemes use residual income as a recruiting incentive. You buy and sell product from the company and convince other people to sign up and do the same. You get paid for what you sell, a percentage of what the people you recruit sell and a percentage of sales of people your recruits recruited.
I’ve tried this several times. I’ve sold Amway, waterless car wash, pain relieving peanut oil and…oh yeah…something really exciting called “video email”.
I’ve yet to find something that offers residual income in any opportunity other than sales. It always sounded like a great idea but it’s never worked for me. It seems like the only people who successfully earn residual income are people really good at sales and promotion, people who have money, people who KNOW people who have money and people who jump on board when such opportunities first become available. That’s why such opportunities are also commonly known as “pyramid schemes”.
So yeah I would have loved to work and get paid for what other people do. I just didn’t have what it took to make it work.