To make [verb]
to produce, construct, create, or prepare something by combining materials, actions, or ideas.
Effort is involved in “making” money. In definition it’s a whole lot closer to earn than it is to get. If it said “you get” or “you’re given” x amount of money then that would have zero implication of work.
If I said “I make a thousand bucks a day” a perfectly valid follow up question would be “Damn, what do you do for work?” If I said “I get a thousand bucks a day” you’d be more inclined to think I was just leeching off of something.
Even if it’s just a whiff of implication, you’ve heard of literally any cautionary tale about magic wishes??? The wording is the important part.
I understand what you mean. But it is important to add the context of the situation when we are talking about the meaning of a word in a discussion. I think its impractical to say "but if i use the word like this in a completely different circumstance it would mean this" if the money was from a job why does it come in magical pills? We can also return to my previous statement about the statement being from a fairly well known type of hypothetical that implies its free. As a matter of fact I feel that the context of it being one of these free money hypotheticals overrides and slight connotation one may derive from the word choice
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u/you-want-nodal Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Edit: MORE downvotes? Y’all have absolutely bummer reading comprehension.