This article is part of the series 30 Days to Change Your Financial Destiny — A Structural Wealth Series . If you’re new here, read the foundation first: Why Your Salary Is Not Your Problem . Then read the previous step: Why Effort Alone Caps Your Financial Ceiling . There’s a tax you pay that never appears on your payslip. It doesn’t come from the government. It doesn’t show up as a line item on your bank statement. And yet it quietly takes more from you than most people will ever realize. The hidden tax of time-based income is the cost of being required to show up… forever. If your income is tied to your hours, your presence, your physical energy, or your mental bandwidth, you’re not only selling labor. You’re selling time. And time has a compoundin...