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Just get some remote/freelance programming work with long-term potential and then hire someone else to do all of it for you and keep the difference.

Make sure to pick a client who is in a very lucrative high-margin industry, so that even once the work dries up they will want to keep you on payroll incase something goes wrong. They might literally pay you a salary to do nothing just for the one day a year things break.

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I know a guy who had two contracts like this. He did the work himself, but then they both kept him on $3k monthly retainers to just be available in case anything breaks. He didn't work for about a decade, and then when the contracts ended, all his skills were a decade out of date and he couldn't get work. But, he had saved up, bought a house which 4x'd in value, and is only just starting to worry about money another 10 years later.

What are these lucrative high-margin industries?

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