Given the average amount of breathing that others calculated that would be over half a million of passive income every year. I could live with that as opposed to having to actively find time to walk.
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Me with asthma and in a wheelchair :(
Ah US taxes. "We know how much you make but you have to do your own paperwork and if you get it wrong we'll jail you."
So how come this is posted twice?
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
I think you forgot to divide by 100 for the breathing one. It's $1,440 cause it was 5 cents
Dang. You're right.
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.
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
Who is Beff Jezos?
I usually call him Jeff Bozo or just Bozo for short.
I'd stick to the safe money of breathing. Sure it's less but it's guaranteed, don't have to feel like you're losing money by spending all day on your PC or getting loaded on a beach somewhere. Plus if you get hit by a bus and crippled at least you still have your income.
If you guesstimate 20 breaths a minute vs 10,000 steps a day, the steps one wins.
Except for day’s you’re sick, stuck inside, etc. Then when you get older the walking would be harder but you still gotta breathe. Plus you can still work any job you’d like since people do like to keep busy, and since it’d probably be more of a passion thing you might be hyper-focused and forget to get your walking in for the day. All the stuff I’d be doing wouldn’t have too much walking involved.
I’d take breath, it’s already more money than I could ever spend so why not make it passive?
Take the guaranteed income (at long as you're alive), and go for a run with all your free time.