I was a lot more spontaneous when I was a broke young man than I am now as a fairly comfortable adult.
The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account
Submitted 9 months ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Landless2029@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maybe it’s also the fact that you’re older and more mature?
What if you had a stream of income in your youth from family supporting you?
Generational wealth.
I definitely would’ve been more spontaneous instead of work two jobs while going to college in my early 20s.
macrocarpa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Reminds me of that 20th century philosopher, C.G.L. Wallace, who quipped “mo money, mo problems”
joshthewaster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, this makes sense. Think the thought still holds though. Just needs to be fixed explained with the normal distribution meme.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Usually, yes.
I can attest that not/postponing having kids drastically reduces the number of responsibilities. Many of my friends had kids younger and are in drastically different scenarios than I am.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 9 months ago
More like your income goes up as the number of responsibilities goes up.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If your bank account gets low enough, spontaneity goes back up.
superkret@feddit.org 9 months ago
To get your final spontaniety ability score, you have to multiply base spontaniety by a factor of
1 –––––––––––– 1 + 1000 * k
where
kis the number of kids you have.jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
I think you have to also account for the kids’ ages. An infant is different than a toddler, teen, or adult child.
superkret@feddit.org 9 months ago
I have left this aspect as an exercise to the reader.
satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m having a really hard time refuting this equation. It appears to work out even for negative and non-integer values of k
RandomVideos@programming.dev 9 months ago
What if i have -0.001 kids?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Okay but how would one have negative amount of kids??
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah yeah, as a DINK, this is a great formula
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I’d say it plateaus eventually. You do need .Oney to do a lot of stuff, but once you have enough money, depression will keep you from being spontaneous anyways.
nobleshift@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m not happy about this upvote
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I disagree with your conclusion that either money makes you depressed or everyone is always depressed.
Yeller_king@reddthat.com 9 months ago
It would seem to be a nonlinear relationship with many other variables to me.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 9 months ago
The ability to be spontaneous is directly related to your
Work/Life balance
It’s almost as though you could stand up and fight for that, I dunno
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 9 months ago
you could stand up and fight for that
For best results, do not do spontaneously (that is, go grab some friends and coworkers before attempting to take on a big business)
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I’d say it’s more linked to how many dependents you have, rather than money in the bank.
Someone with no kids, no wife, and no pets can be spontaneous without a second thought.
Someone who’s tied down, but wealthy, not so much.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m richer than I’ve ever been, and I am far less spontaneous than I’ve ever been.
It’s not linear, it’s some weird polynomial equation!
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not how spontaneous you are is directly proportional is the ability to be spontaneous.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
not at all.
The ability to be spontaneous is directly proportional to your willingness to accept risk.
knowledge mitigates much of that risk.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
as does security in housing and food without the need to work
Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I was way more spontaneous when I was couch surfing. My whole life was one giant spontaneous stream of actions. That’s partially why I was couch surfing.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I was stating a general rule, like the shower thought was attempting.
If you understand risk and its circumstances, you can mitigate that risk regardless of your situation.
If I follow, you’re theorizing the unpracticed ability of a small minority of privileged people?
independently wealthy people can be more spontaneous, but are generally more conservative, they’re as afraid as everybody else of spending their money.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Went on a spontaneous trip very recently.
Spent a little more money than I’m comfy with.
Truck sprung some issues.
Saw some things I would never have seen otherwise. Some beautiful things, creatures, happenings, and places.
I’ll fix the damn truck. Make the money back (or so)
Is it risk, or are you just being a pussy? Yeah, the human world sucks, but you don’t need all the garbage they sell you, and there’s worthwhile experiences you won’t get with your nose stuck down to the grindstone.
I bet you risk your life, limbs, and liberty every single day driving into work.
I’ve had multiple friends die driving. They never thought THAT was a risk.
Go somewhere you don’t plan to. It aint gonna last forever
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
“Is it risk, or are you just being a pussy”
Risk(especially perceived risk) does stop many people, and many people don’t truly understand risk.
“I bet you risk your life, limbs, and liberty every single day driving into work.”
no. I don’t commute to car by work.
“They never thought THAT was a risk.”
many people don’t truly understand risk.
"Go somewhere you don’t plan to. It aint gonna last forever "
I’ve been traveling spontaneously for the past decade and agree.
especially with this part:
“It aint gonna last forever”
fakir@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Man can be free only when and if he’s able to rise above his insecurities
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I don’t know what that means and it’s giving me anxiety.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
My back account seems to be pretty big. No matter how much money I throw in there, I never seem to run out of space. As far as I’m concerned, it’s infinite.
I guess eventually there will be some sort of limitation and the bank gives you a call to tell you that this is a personal account not meant for managing the cash for of an entire country. Until then, we’re all good, and I’m going to think my account is infinite.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Plot twist, the country of Brazil is using Wells Fargo
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
$250,000 is the FDIC limit for insurance.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Aah, so that’s what’s holding back my spontaneous adventures. I need to upgrade to a bigger account.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Spontaneously combust?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
That’s why they sometimes in case things in cement
RBWells@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Time also plays a part.
When I was staying at home with my kids and poor as fuck, 4 people living on $15k, if there was gas in the car I could just take us spontaneously to the park, and my city has free music performances on some Thursday nights, if I have free time I can just make a last minute decision and go.
So now I have a good husband who earns $ and a good job, not rich but certainly more affluent than at any time in my life, but I am much less rich in time. Job takes a lot of it, more responsibility overall and less flexibility.
I don’t think spontaneity scales with money, it scales with free time once you have enough money. And that “enough” is not a lot.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That seems impossible to measure, and being too spontaneous can be bad financially like quitting job after job.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I find this to be true.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 months ago
I think it has a lot to do with disposition and convenience. I’m lazy, and I don’t like to drive if I can help it. But I live near enough to public transportation that we’ll spontaneously decide to hop on the subway and grab dinner on the waterfront.
It’s not the money that’s preventing us from hopping in the car to go to some new beach for dinner, it’s the convenience.
1984@lemmy.today 9 months ago
I spontaneously go to work because I need a salary.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
The ability to be spontaneous doesn’t change.
It’s what you can do spontaneously that changes.
I can’t spontaneously just take off to Japan; but I can spontaneously take a walk around town or go to a park.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Can you? If you spontaneously Take a walk from 9-5 your fired.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
My bank account is still empty either way.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 9 months ago
If you don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re”, you’re probably getting fired at some point anyway
It’s not difficult
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 months ago
I mean…it depends on the job? I go on walks during working hours all the time to clear my head and think about a problem I’m working on. I don’t try to hide this from my manager.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Most financially secure people still work full time. I suppose that in theory, they’re able to quit their jobs without suffering immediate, catastrophic consequences but if they actually did that sort of thing, they wouldn’t be financially secure for long.
(In my experience, many financially secure people actually work much more than full time. I think they would be better off if they didn’t because at some point time becomes more valuable than money, but they have the sort of personality that compels them to. This is often related to starting out without financial security.)
The very rich can do crazy stuff without consequences but they’re such a small part of the population that I don’t think comparing oneself to them is useful.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You’re
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 months ago
Yea, feels like an excuse for lack of spontinaity. Not judging OP, could be depression or any such thing, but these are two independent variables.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You’re right. Being rich might open up more types of spontaneity, but you’re right and this just sounds like an excuse to not do anything.