I rent out cameras, lenses and lighting equipment and it does pretty well. Still takes 1.5-2 years to pay off a £5k camera though… Lenses are great, have sone cinema lenses worth £20k new that most people don’t want to buy, but they’ll happily spend £250 per day on them for a shoot. Smoke machine is a dark horse too, goes out all the time.
It’s easier than you might think to be an empathetic and generous entrepreneur. I regularly deploy resources to solve people’s problems, be they employees, contractors or random acquaintances. It makes me feel good. If I acted differently, I could have more capital but I like be less fulfilled. You could just choose to not be an evil greedy person. In any case, this seems like something to worry about a bit further down the line.
A mere 6 hours per day counts as an addiction in your book? I think I need to be committed to a gaming rehab centre…