• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    11 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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      11 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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        11 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.

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          11 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?