Welcome to the age of “peak marketplace,” where everything you can imagine (and many things you can’t) can be bought and sold.

Millennials and Generation Z are rewriting the rules of making money. Burdened with debt, stagnant wages, and the ever-rising cost of everything, today’s young people know that the traditional ways of earning a living are outdated, if not outright rigged.

Equally disillusioned with these outdated models of work and the grueling entrepreneurial lifestyle, they are instead turning to the decentralized ecosystem of fast-moving virtual markets to pursue a host of previously unheard-of ways to pay the bills.

JoinNew York Timesbestselling bestselling author Chris Guillebeau on a fascinating tour of this brave new world where novelty is currency, and the creators are in control. From the community of gamers getting paid to play, to the armchair pundits beating the bookies in online prediction markets, to TikTok “Sleepfluencers,” AI artists, and the band of renegade investors upending the rules of finance, in the world of Gonzo Capitalism, anything goes.

Along the way, Guillebeau shows how we can all capitalize on the new tools and platforms at our disposal to discover unconventional
ways to turn our time, talents, and creativity into income–on our own terms.