• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    9 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.

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      9 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.

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        9 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.

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        9 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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          9 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?