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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (6 children)

Internet says an average adult breaths 12 - 20 time per minute. Assuming 20 breaths per minute, that comes out to $1,440 dollars per day($0.05 × 20 breaths × 60 minutes × 24 hours)

If you're dedicated, you can walk 20,000 steps in a day. It's not easy, but it's achievable. This would yield $5,000 per day.

For perspective, if you were smart and chose the $5,000 per day, it would take you 547 years to earn your first billion and 131,416 years to have as much money as Jeff Bezos.

Edit: I lost some decimals. I fixed the calculations

[–] synapse1278 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think breathing accounts for $1440.

I would take steps income. Going for a jog twice per week, assuming I'll be taxed at the same rate as my current job, I'll still earn much more money for way less time investment, plus I would be fit and I enjoy running.

[–] Azteh 9 points 5 hours ago

I'd take breath income, purely because it's passive. If you ever lose your legs, you lose your income, but if I ever stop breathing, it's no longer my problem that I have no more income

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