As long as you do not own what is being produced you will always be in a 'time for money' situation. You are trading your time for money (sometimes 5% more a year - or 15% more a year, if you strategically play chess with the job market and your skills niche).

I believe we are all much better off if we focus on building our own niche community/product (a.k.a. http://javascriptweekly.com - the number of subscribers is not as important as the quality of the subscribers).