• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is a question of passive income vs active.

    Passive is king. You breath when you sleep. When you get too old to walk, you still breath.

    • Sabin10@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      The average human takes 20000 breaths per day. For comparison, the average American take 4700 steps a day so steps actually win since the break even point is around 4000 steps.

      • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        Good point, but when you run the numbers that works out to $1000/day for breathing and $1175/day for walking. With $1000 a day you won’t need to take those steps anymore. Bonus, as you gain weight you’ll presumably need to breathe more so you’ll gradually make more and more money right up until the heart attack. Truly a passive income at its finest.

      • Donkter@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        For anyone curious (1000000/50)/12 is 1666.66 which is how many years you would have to live to make a million dollars.

        • TheLameSauce@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          Also should be noted, if you took that 1 mil and just put it in a bunch of high-interest savings accounts, you’d be averaging a little over $3k/month just in the interest earned.

          It does make me wonder, at what point is the guaranteed $x a month a better call than one lump 1 mil?

  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Let’s say you walk 10,000 steps a day. That’s $2500 per day. Sounds like a lot right? How long would it take you to become a billionaire? 400,000 days or just under 1100 years. That’s for 1 billion dollars. Bezos is worth 192.4 billion… Billionaires should not exist and the world would be better off if we ate them.

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I have tthe benefit of a smart watch, so I know my stats quite well. Over the long term, I average 13 breaths per minute, or 18,720 breaths per day. That translates into $936 per day. When not injured, I average 22,000 steps per day, which would get me $5500 per day (currently injured, so no running, so I’m down to 12,000 steps or $3000 per day). Breathing would win only if I averaged fewer than 3744 steps per day. I think I get more just walking to my corner newsagent and back.

  • Caboose12000@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I don’t really care what makes more money, id just take the walking one to incentivise me to walk more. id rather be healthy than slightly richer

  • Aremel@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Let’s do some math, shall we?

    Average person takes 12-20 breaths per minute. 0.05 × 12 = 60 cents a minute on the low end.

    0.6 × 60 = $36/hr at minimum.

    I was initially gonna say the steps one, but $36/hrs minimum just to exist? That sounds kinda tempting…

    • Ignotum@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I average between 8 and 10k steps a day, so 2000-2500$ a day vs 36*24 ~= 864$

      Someone pointed out you could loose your ability to walk in an accident or due to old age but you’d be breathing until the end, but at 3x the income you could easily invest and save to end up much wealthier than you would with the slower but more reliable breathing option

      But regardless of which option you choose you’ll be set for life, but it’ll still probably take you hundreds of thousands of lifetimes to get even a fraction of Jeff Bezos wealth

    • Owl@mander.xyz
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      5 months ago
      • you don’t walk while sleeping (at least most people don’t) but still breathe
      • Mesophar@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        Ok, so average respiration rate for adults over 18 during sleep peaks at 20 breaths per minute. That’s 1200 breaths per hour, and with a cushy 8 hours of sleep, that’s a whopping 9600 breaths while asleep, maximizing the average. That would net you $480 just for sleeping.

        In comparison, on average at a 3 miles per hour pace, it takes 20 minutes to walk 2,252 steps. $480 would take 1,920 steps, and would take about 15.5 minutes to walk at the same pace.

        So, 15 minutes of relaxed but purposeful walking would match the total amount you’d make on average for sleeping.

  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    I doubt you average less than five breaths per step considering all the time one spends not walking, so this is really a no-brainer

  • Enkrod@feddit.de
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    5 months ago

    Breathing is at least 150k a year, that’s more than enough, even after taxes and has me covered when I’m old and can’t go for a walk anymore.

    I don’t need more, I’d rather enjoy my quiet time and taking an walk and standing still for a while at a nice vista, enjoying the view. I don’t need the constant chase for money and even more money in my life and the stress of having to keep moving to get even more. When I walk at the beach with my better half, I’d rather think of how nice this is rather than how much this earns me.