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~~ spouse (edit), and no pets can be spontaneous without a second thought.
Someone who's tied down, but wealthy, not so much.
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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!
It's not how spontaneous you are is directly proportional is the ability to be spontaneous.
Man can be free only when and if he's able to rise above his insecurities
I don’t know what that means and it’s giving me anxiety.
I was a lot more spontaneous when I was a broke young man than I am now as a fairly comfortable adult. Usually the number of responsibilities you have goes up as your income does, and those are the killers of spontaneity.
More like your income goes up as the number of responsibilities goes up.
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.
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.
Reminds me of that 20th century philosopher, C.G.L. Wallace, who quipped "mo money, mo problems"
Yeah, this makes sense. Think the thought still holds though. Just needs to be explained with the normal distribution meme.
To get your final spontaneity ability score, you have to multiply base spontaneity by a factor of
1
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1 + 1000 * k
where k is the number of kids you have.
I think you have to also account for the kids' ages. An infant is different than a toddler, teen, or adult child.
I have left this aspect as an exercise to the reader.
I'm having a really hard time refuting this equation. It appears to work out even for negative and non-integer values of k
What if i have -0.001 kids?
Chop off the end of some kids finger.
Okay but how would one have negative amount of kids??
Kill someone else's kid.
Murder. It’s how many kids you’ve murdered. Therefore you will be in prison and have negative spontaneity.
Ah yeah, as a DINK, this is a great formula
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.
You're right. Being rich might open up more types of spontaneity, but this just sounds like an excuse to not do anything.
Can you? If you spontaneously Take a walk from 9-5 your fired.
Getting fired doesn't make it any less spontaneous.
My bank account is still empty either way.
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.
I bet you get paid more than minimum wage to…
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.
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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.
That seems impossible to measure, and being too spontaneous can be bad financially like quitting job after job.
I find this to be true.
If your bank account gets low enough, spontaneity goes back up.
My bank 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 flow of an entire country. Until then, we’re all good, and I’m going to think my account is infinite.
$250,000 is the FDIC limit for insurance.
Aah, so that’s what’s holding back my spontaneous adventures. I need to upgrade to a bigger account. My 35 cents need some room to breathe.
Plot twist, the country of Brazil is using Wells Fargo
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.
I disagree with your conclusion that either money makes you depressed or everyone is always depressed.
I'm not happy about this upvote
It would seem to be a nonlinear relationship with many other variables to me.
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
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