A secondary or part time income stream can mean the difference between life, or struggle, or death.
Should you lose your primary income, say a regular job, you ill end up claiming unemployment in some cases, or welfare in others. Either way, government money usually isn't enough. If you have a small secondary or part time income you can supplement other income to make your life better.
A good way to create a secondary income stream is to get bitcoin.
You can earn bitcoin via mining, selling things or services for bitcoin, and a variety of other ways.
The easiest free bitcoin you can get is through bitcoin faucets, web sites where techie individuals have set up a way for you to be able to get free bitcoin.
One such faucet is at: http://adf.ly/1gpb7s