As a designer, is it possible to create assets, vs liabilities?

I've been rereading Rich Dad Poor Dad after many years and it made me wonder what an asset would be to a designer.

Generally speaking, an asset is something that makes money for you with little to no involvement from yourself. To me, that basically sounded like all these passive income posts I see from time to time: "I make $XXXX a month from AdWords", " I earned $XXX from RedBubble", "I sell templates and prints from my site". But are these considered assets? Or are they simply passive income side projects?

I always thought to myself, " Hey, if I can create at least 1000 relevant designs on RedBubble, I'm sure I can consistently net a tidy profit just by sheer volume alone." But this is probably a terrible idea now that I think about it.

So what is an asset to a designer? Does it exist?

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