What I’m trying to tease out here is whether or not you think that passive income just means income for labor that is temporally separated from payment, which it seems like you do. That seems like not a particularly useful category of cases to talk about, at least to me. I don’t really think there’s much point in arguing about the “standard” definition, because it’s a buzzword, not a precisely defined technical term.

The complaints on this thread are mostly treating “passive income” as a synonym for “rent seeking” (which is a rigorously defined technical term). Your definition includes things that aren’t rent seeking, and just involve getting paid in the future for labor you did today. Again, I’m not saying your definition is wrong (because there’s no precise definition to be wrong about), but it’s talking past the other criticisms on this thread.