What about bonds you break, or claims you stake?
You couldn’t pay me to breath. Not. even. once.
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
You only need 4-5k steps a day for it to be more money, which is pretty doable for most people. Of course, that would make getting your 10k steps in per day worth about $300k excess, which is a pretty compelling incentive
I’ve got a foolproof and legal way to never pay the IRS a cent!
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 $36/hrs minimum just to exist? That sounds kinda tempting…
I average between 8 and 10k steps a day, so 2000-2500$ 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
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.
For anyone curious (1000000/50)/12 is 1666.66 which is how many years you would have to live to make a million dollars.
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?
Whoever thought that $50 a month is any sort of good income is brain dead.
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.
Jesus, I range anywhere from 9-15k steps every day. I guess I’ll take steps.
When you get too old to walk, you still breath.
But you should already be filthy rich at that point, so who cares 🤷♂️
Steps let me build up actual wealth over the course of just a year or two. Breathing keeps me comfy my whole life, but I can’t be really wasteful for a couple years.
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.
You would also have an incentive to walk more so even if you’re normally very sedentary, you wouldn’t be after taking the deal.
It’s unfortunate that it’s steps and not based on calories or something, I do cardio but mostly resistance training. Can’t afford to lose gains or have to increase my food intake.
bruh, you don’t lose gains by walking, Dr.Mike form Rennessaince Periodization literally recommends walking as one of the best forms of increasing your calories burned without excess hunger or fatigue
increasing your calories burned without excess hunger or fatigue
That’s my point, your goals for exercise are to burn more calories, calories that my body needs to rebuild muscle. If I do more cardio I have to eat more food to maintain my muscle mass. I’m not worried about too many I’m worried about having too few.
but walking doesn’t make you lose muscle mass, nor is it cardio.
If the calories burned are greater than those I can consume to maintain my body weight (currently about 3000kcal/day) then yes it will make me lose weight.
Also yes it is cardio, or it wouldn’t be good exercise. It’s not HIIT or running, but it consumes energy and calories.
Do you fundamentally misunderstand the concept of calories in versus calories out? If my body needs more calories than I’m eating it will harvest muscle to do so. I’ve been lifting weights for over a decade and diet is just as big of a factor in gaining muscle versus lifting itself, this isn’t something new to me.
13k steps.
If im getting 2500 a day, 1800 after tax im good.
More time to walk to get junk food too.
Breaths no question. It’s passive and if you do cardio you breathe more. Taking away the steps for health argument
Plot twist, both options are only paid by in their respective coins. And payment is automatic: it falls on your head from a small portal.
The monkey’s paw will break my legs. I’ll take the breaths.
Granted, you are now a rock
This is fine. No more mental burden, or at least I’m dead.
Now the melody from The Police is haunting me again.
I just want enough money to be comfortable. I’ll take the breaths option for the free low effort money.
My breaths per minute is like 13 or less. But I get like 12000+ steps in a day. For a really long run I can get in like 50000 steps.
So I know which way the math swings for me
Dude, based on an average stride length of 5ft, 50000 steps works out to over 47 miles.
That’s some long ass running.
This was 19 miles up an down a mountain, so much much shorter stride lengths
According to my quick random search* a normal persons breaths 20k times a day, which equals US$ 1k
In order to achieve that with steps, i would need 4k steps, whoch is practically nothing
But how many more times do you breath IF you’re walking 4k steps a day?
Average breaths per minute is about 15. You’re not breathing much harder just walking than you are sitting around.
Getting 5000 steps a day is trivial for most people who can walk. I average around 7200 and that would get me 650k per year.
- Choose steps
- Don’t pay taxes on them
- Taxman wants money
- I run away
- Taxman chases me
- Each step I run, I owe more money
