Every path is scored on income, win rate, growth, and the barrier to starting. Occupations use BLS data. Internet paths keep their brutal median and carry an evidence badge instead of borrowing exceptional founder outcomes. Use the ranking as a research starting point, never a promised outcome.
The two lenses. Start now = 40% income + 20% growth + 40% reachability (time-to-first-income and capital needed), it rewards $0-capital, fast, skill-gated paths, the best deck to open with today. Highest ceiling = 70% income + 30% growth, terminal pay wins, so decade-long moats rise. The same deck tiers differently under each.
The Pick is #1 under the active lens. Meta Breaker is the curated rising internet deck this report. Matchups are hybrid stacks (opener → midgame → wincon), because pure attention decks rarely clear cash alone. Median is deliberately brutal: most internet paths show a near-$0 median because that's the real survivorship-adjusted truth, the exemplars on those cards are the rare winners, not the typical outcome. Every occupation number traces to BLS; tap any card for its source.