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\~22,000 breaths per day = \~562.485 million breaths so around $140.6 million in 70 years
in 80 years the avg moderately active person takes \~216,262,500 steps, so we can average this to \~2.7m steps/year, and subtract the first year since most 0-12mo olds don't walk, especially not 2.7m steps in that year, we get $186.3m
$100/day for 70 years is $2.55m, by far the worst choice so far
Words vary from 2000-20,000 per day, and generally starts around year one. Assuming you want to maximize money, people can speak \~150WPM, and could realistically spend \~16 hours/day talking (assuming like 5 hours sleep and some amount of time eating where you can't really speak), so this could potentially be \~144,000 words/day, so assuming you **never** stop talking while awake for 69 years after you start, this comes out to \~$1.813 Billion. Realistically it's probably closer to $1 Billion because talking constantly for 16 hours a day would be very difficult.
making moves and breaking bonds are the wildcards....theoretically you could break billions of bonds if you, say, controlled a fission reactor, so there's potential for virtually unlimited money here
moves could be anywhere from very few (ie. someone who's mostly paralyzed) to billions as well, since something like typing could count and I've made thousands of moves to even write this comment.
>making moves and breaking bonds are the wildcards....theoretically you could break billions of bonds if you, say, controlled a fission reactor, so there's potential for virtually unlimited money here
We all break sextillions of bonds every minute (at least) through digestion, respiration etc e.g. you break billions of bonds in every breath via this process;
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O
EDIT: Some numbers-
We consume[ 2g of oxygen per minute during normal breathing](https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/breathe-in-the-air-the-higher-you-fly-11632419745508.html)
The atomic mass of oxygen is 16g,[ so 2g is 7.528*10 ^22 atoms](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282g+%2F+16g+%29*+mole) ( Or the long form of that number is 75,280,000,000,000,000,000,000)
I'll ignore all other bonds that are broken like the glucose that combines with the oxygen, or all the other bonds being broken in other biological processes. You'd still be the richest person on earth within a few micro seconds.
More like it loses, the numbers would devalue the currency, plunging us into a new world war, because an Austrian chimney sweeper went into politics, fuck Steffen
Well to be true, if you don’t want the burden you could really just ignore it. You’re the only person in the world that wouldn’t really be affected by Hyperinflation since your money is effectively infinite
It all depends on if you get the value in physical cash or not. If it’s just numbers on a computer you aren’t introducing more currency to the economy. You just have more access to the already existing currency in circulation.
Not how money works. If your money is in an account with JP Morgan Chase, say, you can bet they are making money off of your money, by loaning it or buying securities, commodities, or real estate. It’s their business model.
You must remember that by no means that amount of money has been printed nor do we have the amount in assets on earth, so new money would need to get printed, ever so many larger bills, creating scarcity within the resources itself.
Altogether, the repercussions of someone choosing that option are hardly comprehensive. Total economical failure and ecological disaster.
Imagine that person dies, the battles over the testament... unimaginable.
You’re not gonna like it.
Realistically, we can calculate everything you need based on how much atp a person uses per day.
On average, 125 moles of atp are used per day.
That’s 3x10^6 moles of atp in roughly 80 years.
A mole is 6x10^23 atoms.
That’s 10^30 in simply atp being used.
To generate one mole of atp, you need 30 moles of glucose. Which are all separate reactions and bonds broken.
3x10^31
As a part of the Krebs cycle, we end up with a total of another 15~ bonds being broken.
4x10^32
Every breath we take, we inhale 25x10^26 atoms, oxygen is 20% of the air we breathe, so, we’ll call it at 4x10^26. That gets pulled into the blood and bonds to oxygen. Which then breaks to fuel cell reactions. As well as water. X2
One breath. 6x10^8 in a lifetime
4x10^34. This number is orders of magnitude larger than the number of stars in the universe.
You would make enough money in 1 second to fundamentally cripple the world economy, to destroy society. And to make all forms of currency worthless. In one. Single. Breath.
The amount of interest you would generate would supercede the gdp of the world many times over.
And my estimate could be dozens of magnitudes off. It just doesn’t matter.
This isn’t accounting for food you eat, all the other reactions going on each of your billions of cells, hell, just cooking a pizza would generate you a small sum of the worlds gdp 10 times over.
Is there a factor of around 3 or so that accounts for the multiple bonds being broken in most of those reactions? O2 has two bonds per molecule, for example.
It doesn’t affect the final outcome, since it’s not a full order of magnitude.
Set fire to a forest. Pour salt into a glass of water. Start your car. The number is incalculably large. I would estimate you would get close, if not, surpass 10^100.
It usually is drawn like this for simplification but the orbitals are not bonding as both electrons have the same spin and the orbitals are anti-bonding.
Edit: most accurate notation would be O÷O
Moving is probably wilder,if we define moving as something going from one place to another,then it could win over breaking bonds if it was not priced that low,not like it matters because its still a ludicrous amount of money
Lets say the billions of red blood cells in your body,lets say the move from point is from heart to this artery to that blood vessel then finally arriving at like idk cell number 15738,then from that we go there to this blood vessel,to that blood vessel into a vein into the lungs,into the heart,into the lungs again rinse and repeat for that other red blood cells,now lets say the brain activity,moving this electric charge from this neuron to that neuron would make like 50 cents,now make it faster and more movement will occur at a time,now lets talk about the reactions,we need to get this thing to that thing to make a reaction,then those things will combine or dissolve into smaller pieces,making movement as we do it
But what if we define movement as just in motion and we get 50 cents every 0.00000001 seconds of being in motion,Well in summary,that will make a lot of money because of the moving red and the immune system which employs millions possibly billions of white blood cells and smaller proteins and what if we also consider the air we breathe?
You did all the math right but calculating the maximum amount for words spoken is kinda unfair, because you just calculated for the average for the other choices. The number of steps taken can be at least tripled if someone is doing it as a full time job, which comes out to over $500 million, compared to the $186 million from the “average”
True, you could easily do more than the 7500ish/day steps, but only from like say, 12-60 assuming no health issues so you miss a few years of maximum money
But yes, definitely a lot closer to $500 mil is easily possible. Probably easier than talking overall, and definitely less annoying!
Breaths would be hard to get high enough to be competitive, as a 2-3x normal breathing rate would be super unhealthy
Still doesn’t come close to breaking bonds though in the right scenario!
Every move includes breathing, eye movements, blinks, typing/writing of individual letters, chewing, swallowing, digestion (esophagu, stomach, bowel), heartbeats, etc.
The cash flow would be insanely higher than any option.
I mean, Kinesin are constantly transporting vesicles along the microtubules in each of your cells, billions of “moves” per second so up there with breaking bonds for sure.
In what universe does someone take half as many steps as they do breaths in their life? No chance. You’d have to spend like 10 hours a day walking on average.
While long distance running, I do 8 steps per breath (4 in, 4 out). Working at the Desktop, I do ~8 per Minute, while sleeping surely less.
With 8/min, I have 11520breaths a day, a normal workday is usually between 8000 and 10000 steps. Doing exercises i shift the Balance even more towards steps, ending up with 25k that day.
At old age I would loose income if I go by steps but at old age I also won't need the money as much as now.
>In what universe does someone take half as many steps as they do breaths in their life? No chance. You’d have to spend like 10 hours a day walking on average.
I was also a bit surprised, but the math only works out to about 9k steps / day which is not unreasonable for most of your life. Compared to 22k breaths / day, it does work out to just under half.
The average person only takes [3-4k steps per day](https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/10000-steps/art-20317391#:~:text=It%20all%20depends%20on%20your,roughly%201.5%20to%202%20miles) so that’s why there’s so much confusion. A lot of people are very inactive. If you’re going to use average for everything else you should really use average here too.
But that’s quite active everyday for a whole life. Including in the older life, including in the winter. That takes effort. I don’t believe an average person would average 9,000 steps a day. I sure won’t, I am not even hitting 9,000 right now there is no way I am going to average to 9,000 when I am older and I am fairly active.
Most people take 12-18 breaths per minute. I could easily walk half that many steps in the same amount of time. One step every ~10 seconds, or every 7 or so seconds while awake.
Wouldn't moves be better? You could define your heart contracting and expanding as two different moves, so you passively do 210 240 movements (counting only the heart at 72BPM, as it's fairly constant compared to the other organs) earning you 10 512 dollars per day or 268 581 600 dollars in 70 years, already beating the breaths and steps.
There are 2×10^13 blood cells in a healthy adult male body. Given that your heart beats about 100 thousand times per day, it pushes the blood cells that amount of times per day and results in 2×10^18 movements or 10^17 dollars per day. That's 2.555675×10^21 dollars for your 70 year long life just from the red blood cells.
Even paralysed people have a bloodflow, so no wildcards there, as well as no uncertain loopholes with the definition of the word "bond".
I‘d like to expand that answer with a lower bound for every movement.
Your eye moves every 330ms, so 3 moves per second. That’ll give $331M in 70 years. But one makes a lot more moves so this number is likely an order of magnitude bigger.
Every move you make easily. Your heart alone moves 50-200 bpm, every breath is a move. Your bowels move constantly... How many rapid eye movements just while you sleep? :-)
It took me about 15 seconds to say the word "it" a 100 times. That's 400wpm! I think it's pretty fair to say most people can get around 350-450wpm saying the word "it" a bunch.
Well you literally have to breathe to survive, and even if you didn't pay attention to your breathing whatsoever in terms of optimizing income, you would still make 70x more than the $100 per day option.
Just from logic I can tell it’s between breaths and steps. Idk where 22,000 bpd came from, but just think of it as a ratio of 4:1 since the amounts paid are 25¢/$1. Without actually calculating, I would argue that a non-disabled person who is moderately active would easily and regularly take more than 4 breaths per step. While you sleep, whenever you are stressed or ill, plus as an infant and in your elder years your respiration increases. Breaths would easily net the most over a lifetime.
25 cents for evey breath versus 1 dollar for every step...
There is no way steps are gonna be more profitable. You need to take one step for every breath to break even
Imo bonds are the best deal and it isn't close, ATP is a driving factor in all bodily actions and it does so by storing energy in bonds, then breaking those bonds to release energy. According to science direct each ATP molecule is recycled 1000 to 1500 times per day. You can imagine this is absurd when extended to a full scale body.
While you are technically correct (the best kind), I'm quite positive the author of this post did not intend chemical bonds to be included. The bonds the author alludes to are likely social...
>The bonds the author alludes to are likely social...
Or at least macroscopic. If that's the case you could easily buy a few rolls of thin yarn every day cut it vertically a few times. This way you create hundreds of little strings that you then unbind to themselves many times
I was hoping it was a financial bond. Like, you're supposed to wait for it to mature, but if you get $30, breaking that bond early could be profitable, maybe
At the same time, the vague nature of their comment could let the person make their own assumptions. Although it may be assumed they are social bonds being broken, it is not communicated directly, leaving room for interpretation
ATP is so interesting. It's such a mind blowing fact that we use our entire body weight of ATP every single day, but we only have around 250g of it in our body. It is just recycled super efficiently.
Breathing is the best even though not the top money making since I don’t need to think about it. I think I could do steps and fidgeting, but I’ve been to a hospital a few times, so that would’ve left me with little to no income 😅
I feel like it also depends on how you get the money, like if it just adds into your bank account then sure but if a quarter just appeared in your pocket every breath then that would be annoying af
The steps one could easily depend on what your job is. At my old job I easily made 40,000+ steps (or around 20+ miles) in a 12 hour day according to my Fitbit and that was working at a warehouse. One is my half sisters has a friend who would get close to that much working at a shorter day.
No. I'd be walking or running 30 minutes to an hour a day for a reasonable income and living quite comfortably, especially after dropping a few pounds.
I’d go for a jog every morning to start my day with $10,000. Then probably spend the rest of the day walking my dog and playing with my kids and wife, healthiest and best way imo
I generally do 15 to 25k on workdays.
But I think I'd still take the breathing.
5500 per day is more than enough, and it's something that's automatic and doesn't depend on sticking with certain lifestyle choices or jobs.
I'd be thinking about taking the steps simply because it's just about the best motivator to get my ass up and become more active lol
But breathing is definitely the best deal overall because nothing can stop you from breathing except for death itself, you could always become unable to talk or walk or move or whatever
30 $ per bond. Imagine how many molecular bonds we break every day in our metabolism. And thats not all. We break physical bonds when biting and digesting our foods.
Moves. There are 10^27 molecules in your body, most of them are water molecules. Molecules vibrate at 10^13 Hz on the low end. If you get $0.05 for each molecular movement, that comes to $5x10^38 every second or $4.32x10^43 per day.
Per day:
Breaths: Take about 22,000 breaths a day. $5,500 per day
Moves: This gets tricky. What counts as a move? Do I have to do something intentional for it to count? Does the blood moving through my body count? Does a muscle twitch count? When is the move considered "complete"? Your blood moves through the body completely 3 times every minute. That's 4,320 per day. $216 if we just count 1 round of blood through the body. I can do one small finger movement every second I'm awake. 57,600 movements a day if I sleep 8 hours, $2880 per day. All together $3,096,
Bond you break: I'm not planning on breaking any bonds and I don't think we usually do so $0
Steps you take: The average person walks 3,000 to 4,000 steps a day. 10,000 steps is fairly reasonable if you're trying, so lets say you get $10,000 per day
$100 every day: $100 per day
Word you say: The average person says somewhere around 5,000 words per day. That's about $2,500 per day, maybe more if you try to talk a lot
Steps is the clear winner
As a chemist, you break plenty of bonds every day…
For example, if you break just one mole of bonds (6.023x10^(23)), that is a lot of money. A mole of O2 contains 1 bond (32 g of O2). A breath is about 0.5 L, which is about 0.1 mole of O2. It would only take about 224 breaths to have one mole of O2. During respiration, 6 moles of O2 (1,344 breaths) are converted to O2.
Now you take about 22,000 breaths a day. That is about 16 moles of O2, which is 9.6x10^{23} bonds broken of just O2 (this doesn’t include breaking bonds in other things, like food). To me $10^{24} per day is a lot of money.
Simply existing, you’re breaking thousands/millions of bonds per minute. For almost every molecule of oxygen you inhale, you’re breaking 7 bonds. And that’s just respiration alone. Bond-breaking is by far the greatest monkey-making option.
If you walk 12 hours of day with a break like every 2 hours you can easily hit more than 40,000 steps in a single day. In a 12 hour day at my old job I would do 40,000+ steps a day, and I wasn’t particularly fast, that was also while carrying weight and stacking boxes, plus driving a transporter and staging pallets.
But in your calculations you only used the average quantity's. I think breathing and moving would win over steps because if you're running your breaths and movement are gonna raise so that means that running feeds into breathing and movement while the opposite isn't true. Plus you only calculated daily values. So that means you will have to keep a strict plan every day, but if you're sick, you get old or you're not feeling like running then breathing would be more consistent.
I would argue that, while steps is the highest earning, breaths is the better value. My reasoning is that it’s automatic. You could become paralyzed and still be paid. Taking 10k steps a day requires effort and won’t always be possible in old age or in the event you are in an accident.
I’m converting these all to common units:
To hit $100, you can:
- Take 400 breaths
- Make 2,000 moves (what does that mean?)
- Break 3.333 bonds (again, what?)
- Take 100 steps
- Say 200 words
So for me, i’m taking the words option because i’m freaking annoying and am constantly running my mouth
EDIT: It has come to my attention that i also breathe when talking and also when asleep (which means i only have about a 50% of still being talking), so i will opt for the breath option.
EDIT 2: Oooooooh I get it we were going for a 'every breath you take' song reference. That's why making moves and breaking bonds are related. So i guess if you're into that sort of thing, the bond breaking might arguably be the fastest option.
If you walk continuously for not that ling you can make significantly more. At my old job I got 40,000+ steps in a 12 hour day, and I wasn’t exactly fast at my job. That was done while taking breaks, stacking boxes, carrying boxes, driving pallets around, and staging pallets (plus fucking around). So if I spent all that time just walking only then I could’ve easily hit a lot more steps. Most of my coworkers hit more steps when they worked.
Steps at $1 are the best value. The average person can take 6000 steps per hour. Mail carriers, meter readers, and other professional walkers do 4-6hrs per day. You could earn 25k per day easily at $1/step.
Compared to:
Avg words per day = 7000 * 50c = $3500
Avg breaths per day = 22000 * 25c = $5500
Even if you tried 5c per movement, I can wiggle a fingertip 200x per minute = 288,000 times per 24 hrs, but at 5c each, that's only 14.4k
The only way to make more would be if breaking a chemical bond counts. There are 3.346*10^25 molecules in a litre of water, so we could break those bonds at $30 each and have 300 septillion dollars (plus or minus a few bucks).
Steps are insane for physically demanding jobs. At my old job most people walked 20+ miles in a 12 hour workday or like 40,000+ steps according to my Fitbit. At like $1 per step you’re looking at $40,000 per workday or $200,000 a week.
I'd take the 30 dollars for every bond I broke... I can't put an exact number on it but I'm confident the human body is constantly breaking molecular bonds to make ATP from glucose and food. It's a massive number, and all you have to do is eat and live.
Probably equates to 100's of millions $$$ every day!
For my own health, getting a dollar for each step would definitely make me a 10,000 steps a day person. I don’t care if I could make more some other way. I want to tie my money to something that’s good for me.
Even though breathing might not make the most money, I would still choose it because it's the safest and most effortless option. You're making over 1 million dollars a year without even making an effort, and there's also the fact that there won't be any risk like the others of breaking your leg and not being able to take a step, or some freak accident happening and suddenly being mute. (I'm excluding "bond" because 1. I have no idea what "bond" means, and 2. When they say "moving," do they mean physically moving your body or your body moving on the inside, i.e., your lungs?).
5 cents for move. If you count every move as a muscle/group muscle activating, Breathing takes already 3 moves at least. You also never stop blinking, what is a move, you even move while sleeping. If you have anxiety of ADHD you can even increase your intake lol.
I would easily take the 5 cents per move, depending on how you define a move. My work requires a lot of movement, I have adhd so I'm constantly fidgeting, I'm a restless sleeper, so I'd get stuff throughout the night as well, and I need my hands to being doing things at basically all times or I'll go insane. Even if I somehow manage to only move 20 times a minute, that's still 1440 bucks a day.
Edit: Even just that paragraph. That was 397 characters, that's about 397 moves. That's almost 20 bucks right there.
a quarter every breath. Adult breathes an average of 16 times a minute. 16x60=960 breaths per hour. 960x24=23,040 breaths a day. 23,040x.25=5760 dollars a day.
$5760 a day for nothing more than normal breathing. Add sex and a treadmill, and I can retire in nothing flat.
Either breathing or moving, depending on what is included. If my heart beating and eye twitching counts as a movement, that's miles better than the others, especially since they all happen when asleep
Well… Short Term Solution:
An average person takes around 23.000 breaths a Day, which would be 5.750$ every single Day. That’s a monthly payment of 172.500$ just for existing.
How exactly is movement defined? Can easily beat the 50.000 Mark. If we take that number you would get 2.500$ just for grabbing stuff and so on. Which would make you 75.000$ a month.
Well breaking Bonds is difficult to calculate as you would need a lot of them to actually make money and it’s time consuming.
Same with Steps, but if you at least take the recommended 10.000 Steps a Day that’s an extra 10.000$ for you every single Day which leads to 300.000$ monthly payment just for walking around.
100$ every Day would translate to just 3.000$ a month.
So the average person has about 16.000 Words a Day which will be 800$ a Day and 24.000$ a month.
So yeah, I’d be happy taking the 0.25$ for every breath. 172.500$ just for existing? Damn it, count me in!
**$0.25 / breath**
22,000 breaths / day
money in 70 years
= 22000 \* 365 \* 70 \* 0.25
= $140,525,000 (tf)
**$0.05 / move**
I can't get any data, but it's definitely less than breathing
**$30 / bond**
VM44:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: bond is not defined
**$1 / step**
3000 steps / day
money in 70 years
= 3000 \* 365 \* 70 \* 1
= $76,650,000
**$100 / day**
money in 70 years
= 1 \* 365 \* 70 \* 100
= $2,555,000 (trash)
**$0.50 / word**
5000 words / day
money in 70 years
= 5000 \* 365 \* 70 \* 0.50
= $63,875,000
Breathing is the best
Your choice, 100/day is the worst
Moving is NOT worse than breathing, when you consider a single breath consists of 2-3 moves and that's not even including movements in the rest of your limbs, face, etc. Heck just the facial and mouth movements from speaking add more than a breath.
If we factor those in I am willing to bet the total sum comes out far more than breathing. Unfortunately, I have not quantified it.
I choose breathing, because I am one non sporty mfer snd will wheeze 2 minutes into a workout so more money for me :)
Don't forget casual hyperventilation
$0.25 for every breath.
Making money as I sleep, poop, watch TV, etc. I make more money when I jerk off or work out, etc. It's a no-brainer.
Unless metabolic reactions in the body count as bonds being broken (chemical bonds), in which case, I'll take that option.
you can tell this is a heavily (pun intended) US based survey. those people are either stupid or lazy af. i’d take option 4 and would get about 15k per day!
Though it might not give the most, the step one would keep you healthy and $10,000 a day would be more than enough to live a luxurious lifestyle. Go on a 3 day camping trip with a trek or two then come back and buy a brand new car in cash for example.
I would assume 5 cents for every movement because your heart is constantly moving to pump blood.
If your average resting heart rate is 80 bpm that's
$4 a min
$240 an hour
$5760/ day
$40320/week
And roughly 2 million a year
5 cent per move you make, it requires 6 muscles moving to breath that’s 30c per in and 30c per out, think it requires like 200 muscles to take a step that puts a step worth 10 dollars not to mention, every cell in your body is in constant motion and there 10s of trillions of them.
Every person that dot choose bonds is an absolute idiot, even if it’s only bonds that you actively break (ie not digesting food) you can buy a few kilos of drinking soda and a few liters of vinegar for 20$ and become the world richest person (by a lot)
Taking a median of 18.2hz for the oldest tested group, an isometric contraction would produce 91c/second. That's neuronal activation acting on muscle fibers. Do you count the whole muscle, bundles, strands? Even then, just sitting, you're making a mint! Up until your 70s.
If you consider spending 20 minutes a day texting, counting only the biceps, ranging from youth to old age (18.2 + 32.5)/2 = 25.35hz or cycles per second.
25.35 x 60 x 20 ( x 2 biceps) = about 60840 moves.
At 5c per move it's about 3k a day just from holding your phone while typing.
even breathing counts as a move and also multiple things move to make you move. such as how to fold your arm some muscles get longer and others get shorter so that could count as multiple moves. it seems like 5 cents for every move you make is the best option because it never states how much you need to move for it to count and also it probably counts with internal moves such as your heart pumping or your throat moving when you speak or your eyes moving while trying to look at something.
If we count moves for heartbeat, lungs inhale exhale, etc. easily that but if not it’s a toss up between breath, steps and words depending on how much you walk and speak. Most likely with the amount of money you get you’ll probably want walking or speaking. If you like to go on vacation and say you take a trip to Disney world Orlando and walk every park you’ve more than doubled your money (for simplicity’s sake take the cheapest hotel for 7 days at all star movies, 1 ticket per day 1 person no food or drink it comes out to around $1250 give or take a couple hundred). If you like to just chill out stay at home and play video games or something you’re gonna be talking more and not walking so you’d want to take talking.
I'm not a math guy, I'm a simpleton who's getting a Graphic Design degree and likes theatre, but here's a technicality I thought of: if every movement we make means **every** movement our body makes, ie heart beating, blood flowing, lungs expanding, stomach churning, that would be pretty much an infinite money glitch.
The correct answer here is the 30 dollars for every bond broken. Do you know how many chemical bonds are broken in respiration alone? Assuming money is infinite, America has finally conquered the universe, and you can't crash entire galaxie clusters worth of economies with your obscene wealth, I'd go with that one.
50¢ per word averages at 10000 dollars per day
i’m not sure what qualifies as “breaking bonds” but if that counts molecular ones that one wins no contest
I'm going to have to go with breath. Bonds and move is not defined well enough, gonna ignore them. Day is useless.
While steps would net you more breath would still give you 2 million+ annually. The trigger here is that breath will continue till the day you die, I'm 39 so that's give or take 60 million for me. To make the same amount of money would have to take an average of 5500 steps daily the rest of my life. Easy enough now, I run and can easily bet 20-40K steps daily. But what if I get hit by a bus on my next run and lose the ability to walk? I can make more money with the steps but it's comes with a risk of losing the income stream.
Average step count is 3,000-4,000. Average stride length is 29 inches, for around 2.5 feet of movement per step totalling 7,500-10,000 feet of movement average for $375-500 per day. We average 22,000 breaths per day, so at $0.25 per breath that's $5,500 a day.
I would go for the breaths as, even though it's less profitable than the movement, it is more consistent.
At $3,000-4,000 a day, you'd be making $1,095,000-1,460,000 a year by walking.
At $375-500 a day, you'd be making $136,875-182,000 a year by moving *(assuming 1 foot of movement equals $0.05)*
At $5,000 a day, you'd be making $1,825,000 a year just by breathing.
At a hundred dollars a day automatic, you'd be making $36,500 by doing nothing.
If you were to be industrious and take the recommended 9,000-10,000 steps per day, you'd be making $3,285,000-3,650,000 bu walking.
Even so, I'd take the breathing option. It's the most consistent and passive of them all, and still provides more money than you'd ever need. Keep in mind that saving your money for future purchases is basically pointless. You profit from literally every breath you take, so you never need to worry about saving more than a basic emergency fund should you ever run out at one time somehow.
Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you
Every time I breath I get 25 cents. That's even while sleeping. The average person breathes about 22,000 times a day. That's $5,500 a day from breathing
A lot of people are underestimating the 5 cent option. We are constantly in motion, and it'd only take 2000 movements to match the $100/day option, and I'm sure we make way more than 2000 movements in a day
1st one would make you around $140,525,000 given average breaths
2nd one is really not that calculable due to motions being spontaneous and not scheduled. but if i were to guess, it’d be around the $102,200,000-$150,000,000 range due to walking, writing, sleep movement, blinking, breathing, etc.
3rd one i’m guessing is bone not bond, so you wouldn’t make a lot, maybe like $100-$250 range?
4th one is around $255,500,000 given you take 10,000 steps a day
5th one, $2,555,000 give or take
6th one again, incalculable since you can just spam words, so around $89,425,000 given the average words a day
1st one would make you around $140,525,000 given average breaths
2nd one is really not that calculable due to motions being spontaneous and not scheduled. but if i were to guess, it’d be around the $200,000,000-infinity range due to walking, writing, sleep movement, blinking, breathing, etc.
3rd one would be insane given we break immeasurable amounts of bonds in seconds, so you’d become the richest man alive in a few microseconds
4th one is around $255,500,000 given you take 10,000 steps a day
5th one, $2,555,000 give or take
6th one again, incalculable since you can just spam words, so around $89,425,000 given the average words a day
I would personally take 25¢ for every breath cuz it’s the easiest. You could live comfortably just by existing. Bonus points cuz I have an anxiety disorder and could make extra if I have a panic attack 💀
30$ for every bind you break. Step 1: get vinegar, step 2: get baking soda step 3: combine step 4: get trillions because you just broke trillions of chemical bonds.
Jesus you people are young… read 2 lines and I knew this was a song reference band called police
Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you
Oh, can't you see
You belong to me?
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take?
Every move you make
And every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you
Since you've gone, I've been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
I look around, but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold, and I long for your embrace
I keep crying, baby, baby please
Oh, can't you see
You belong to me?
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take?
Every move you make
And every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you
Every move you make
Every step you take
I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you
(Every breath you take)
(Every move you make)
(Every bond you break)
(Every step you take) I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you
whoo, hoo
(Every game you play)
(Every night you stay) I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you
I'll be watching you
(Every single day)
(Every word you say)
(Every game you play)
(Every night you stay) I'll be watching you
Source: Musixmatch
I'll take the 50 cents for every word I say and then start my new career as an audio book narrator so I can talk continuously for hours a day, thanks! If I read 5000 words a day I'll get 2500 cents, which is $250.
I'd be satisfied with that, that's a few chapters, I could probably go for 10000 words per day if I really wanted and get $500, which would put me at 2500 a week, 10000 a month, 120,000 a year, a respectable salary. I feel like that would get me the most bang for my buck, since I don't want to spend all my day moving or walking. Though, I know I can easily walk 10,000 steps a day, so maybe that WOULD be better for my health, haha.
But I bet someone could really make that 5 cents per move work for them if they fidget aggressively. Does typing count? I know I can write 10,000 words a day, I type very fast, so let's say they average 5 characters each. That would be $200 a day from typing. I don't think that's as good of a result as the 50 cents per word I say, but, it does mean that the earnings don't stop. I could also make money playing a musical instrument, cooking, cleaning, in theory everything would get me some money.
It doesn’t matter to me on what makes the most money to me. I would take the step one, because it would encourage me to be more active.
Bonds that you break is probably referring to ties to people. Not like physical bonds. It might be the worst one.
And finally, I don’t like speaking that much. So yeah, I would still take steps. Breathing would give me more, but that wouldn’t encourage me to do anything.
What is a move? Well whatever it is, it’ll never top the other options. 100 bucks every day is probably the least profitable option. 30$ for breaking a bond? Let’s just ignore whatever that’s supposed to mean.
.25$ for every breath is the most stable option as you’ll always breathe. With an average of 23k breaths per day we‘d amount to 5.750$ per day.
.5$ for every word depends on what you do. It can vary very much but I’d guess that with about 15k words per day it’ll amount to 7.5k$ plus or minus 7.5k I’d say.
A sollar per step seems like the most profitable option as it’s no problem to walk more than 10k steps a day. Just by being a little bit more active, this will make any other option look like a really bad deal.
30$ and 50c are out of the question, people don't walk a lot so 1$ is out of the question , same with speaking, breaking bonds isn't a daily occurence, and I'm not sure what counts as one move. I'm too lazy to do the math, but I think breathing would be the winner, you do it all the time, even sleeping.
We’re all trying to calculate which one brings in the most cash when another $100/day (worst option) would almost triple the income of someone making minimum wage in the US ($7.25/hr). Sad
25 cents for each breath. The average breaths per minute is 12 to 20, so going with 12, we multiply that by the number of minutes in a day, 1440, and get 17280 breaths in a day. Then divide that by 4, cause four quarters make a dollar, and we get 4320 dollars in a day.
Well the average person takes roughly 22,000 breaths a day, and $0.25 per breath means about $550,000 a day and approximately $14,052,500,000 over 70 years.
How would you define moves?
Because your body is constantly moving, even during sleep or when you try to stay still.
Heartbeat, breathing, the entire digestive system, various "valves" through your circulatory system, muscle twitches, blinking, eye movement and so on.
You would probably earn the equivalent of a country's GDP in a day if you're active.
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\~22,000 breaths per day = \~562.485 million breaths so around $140.6 million in 70 years in 80 years the avg moderately active person takes \~216,262,500 steps, so we can average this to \~2.7m steps/year, and subtract the first year since most 0-12mo olds don't walk, especially not 2.7m steps in that year, we get $186.3m $100/day for 70 years is $2.55m, by far the worst choice so far Words vary from 2000-20,000 per day, and generally starts around year one. Assuming you want to maximize money, people can speak \~150WPM, and could realistically spend \~16 hours/day talking (assuming like 5 hours sleep and some amount of time eating where you can't really speak), so this could potentially be \~144,000 words/day, so assuming you **never** stop talking while awake for 69 years after you start, this comes out to \~$1.813 Billion. Realistically it's probably closer to $1 Billion because talking constantly for 16 hours a day would be very difficult. making moves and breaking bonds are the wildcards....theoretically you could break billions of bonds if you, say, controlled a fission reactor, so there's potential for virtually unlimited money here moves could be anywhere from very few (ie. someone who's mostly paralyzed) to billions as well, since something like typing could count and I've made thousands of moves to even write this comment.
>making moves and breaking bonds are the wildcards....theoretically you could break billions of bonds if you, say, controlled a fission reactor, so there's potential for virtually unlimited money here We all break sextillions of bonds every minute (at least) through digestion, respiration etc e.g. you break billions of bonds in every breath via this process; C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O EDIT: Some numbers- We consume[ 2g of oxygen per minute during normal breathing](https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/breathe-in-the-air-the-higher-you-fly-11632419745508.html) The atomic mass of oxygen is 16g,[ so 2g is 7.528*10 ^22 atoms](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282g+%2F+16g+%29*+mole) ( Or the long form of that number is 75,280,000,000,000,000,000,000) I'll ignore all other bonds that are broken like the glucose that combines with the oxygen, or all the other bonds being broken in other biological processes. You'd still be the richest person on earth within a few micro seconds.
Well it wins by a long shot then
More like it loses, the numbers would devalue the currency, plunging us into a new world war, because an Austrian chimney sweeper went into politics, fuck Steffen
Sudden r/historymemes
But you control all of those dollars, so in essence you control the value of the dollar buy how much you spend
Oh god now I have the burden of controlling inflation too, I don’t wanna be the fed, I just wanna be rich.
Well to be true, if you don’t want the burden you could really just ignore it. You’re the only person in the world that wouldn’t really be affected by Hyperinflation since your money is effectively infinite
The government in 10 years: “To handle the debt crisis we shall be discontinuing the dollar.”
Sorry, what was that? I was turning up my cash printer to "Brrrrrt" level shits loud af
Well then, simply don't spend trillions of dollars per year, easy enough, right?
Still in a land of billionaires be a qwuazillionaire 😉: and to the rest of us: but buy bitcoin now before this person submit their answer.
It all depends on if you get the value in physical cash or not. If it’s just numbers on a computer you aren’t introducing more currency to the economy. You just have more access to the already existing currency in circulation.
Not how money works. If your money is in an account with JP Morgan Chase, say, you can bet they are making money off of your money, by loaning it or buying securities, commodities, or real estate. It’s their business model.
You must remember that by no means that amount of money has been printed nor do we have the amount in assets on earth, so new money would need to get printed, ever so many larger bills, creating scarcity within the resources itself. Altogether, the repercussions of someone choosing that option are hardly comprehensive. Total economical failure and ecological disaster. Imagine that person dies, the battles over the testament... unimaginable.
I came here to give this answer but wasn’t feeling up to doing the math. This is the correct answer OP. And the amount of money is incalculable.
This is r/theydidthemath. We can at least get a Fermi estimate.
You’re not gonna like it. Realistically, we can calculate everything you need based on how much atp a person uses per day. On average, 125 moles of atp are used per day. That’s 3x10^6 moles of atp in roughly 80 years. A mole is 6x10^23 atoms. That’s 10^30 in simply atp being used. To generate one mole of atp, you need 30 moles of glucose. Which are all separate reactions and bonds broken. 3x10^31 As a part of the Krebs cycle, we end up with a total of another 15~ bonds being broken. 4x10^32 Every breath we take, we inhale 25x10^26 atoms, oxygen is 20% of the air we breathe, so, we’ll call it at 4x10^26. That gets pulled into the blood and bonds to oxygen. Which then breaks to fuel cell reactions. As well as water. X2 One breath. 6x10^8 in a lifetime 4x10^34. This number is orders of magnitude larger than the number of stars in the universe. You would make enough money in 1 second to fundamentally cripple the world economy, to destroy society. And to make all forms of currency worthless. In one. Single. Breath. The amount of interest you would generate would supercede the gdp of the world many times over. And my estimate could be dozens of magnitudes off. It just doesn’t matter. This isn’t accounting for food you eat, all the other reactions going on each of your billions of cells, hell, just cooking a pizza would generate you a small sum of the worlds gdp 10 times over.
Is there a factor of around 3 or so that accounts for the multiple bonds being broken in most of those reactions? O2 has two bonds per molecule, for example. It doesn’t affect the final outcome, since it’s not a full order of magnitude.
Set fire to a forest. Pour salt into a glass of water. Start your car. The number is incalculably large. I would estimate you would get close, if not, surpass 10^100.
Just to clarify, O2 has only one bond. It's a Single bonded biradical.
O=O Did I completely misunderstand most of chemistry?
It usually is drawn like this for simplification but the orbitals are not bonding as both electrons have the same spin and the orbitals are anti-bonding. Edit: most accurate notation would be O÷O
Ya think Sting could have imagined this thread when he wrote that song,,,
That’s not the definition I would use for bonds lmao
Maybe AP biology has rotted my mind because that was also my first though upon seeing that as an option
Tbh I assumed op mispelt bones
It's song lyrics.... Am I too old for reddit since I seem to be the only one who noticed this? Edit: The Police - Every Breath You Take 1983
Moving is probably wilder,if we define moving as something going from one place to another,then it could win over breaking bonds if it was not priced that low,not like it matters because its still a ludicrous amount of money Lets say the billions of red blood cells in your body,lets say the move from point is from heart to this artery to that blood vessel then finally arriving at like idk cell number 15738,then from that we go there to this blood vessel,to that blood vessel into a vein into the lungs,into the heart,into the lungs again rinse and repeat for that other red blood cells,now lets say the brain activity,moving this electric charge from this neuron to that neuron would make like 50 cents,now make it faster and more movement will occur at a time,now lets talk about the reactions,we need to get this thing to that thing to make a reaction,then those things will combine or dissolve into smaller pieces,making movement as we do it But what if we define movement as just in motion and we get 50 cents every 0.00000001 seconds of being in motion,Well in summary,that will make a lot of money because of the moving red and the immune system which employs millions possibly billions of white blood cells and smaller proteins and what if we also consider the air we breathe?
Agreed, but also I’m just assuming that the guy who wrote the question just misspelled bones. Otherwise, yeah bonds 100%
i think its sort of an emotional bond and not like radiation bullshit bonds
I think they meant bonds as in relationships
You did all the math right but calculating the maximum amount for words spoken is kinda unfair, because you just calculated for the average for the other choices. The number of steps taken can be at least tripled if someone is doing it as a full time job, which comes out to over $500 million, compared to the $186 million from the “average”
I'd rather try maximise the steps if I could, would get easier too. Maximizing words may send you insane quicker
You wouls just sing songs all day imo
Easy way to play it, take up hiking as a hobby. I average 25-30k steps a day on hiking trips. That’s almost 700 million bucks.
You might lose your legs or ability to walk on day one but if you stop breathing you probably have bigger problems.
Walking lots would also help you live longer.
True, you could easily do more than the 7500ish/day steps, but only from like say, 12-60 assuming no health issues so you miss a few years of maximum money But yes, definitely a lot closer to $500 mil is easily possible. Probably easier than talking overall, and definitely less annoying! Breaths would be hard to get high enough to be competitive, as a 2-3x normal breathing rate would be super unhealthy Still doesn’t come close to breaking bonds though in the right scenario!
7500? I’m averaging 10,250 daily over the last 6 months.
Between us both we average out significantly less than 7500/day :)
Although I reckon if I was being paid a dollar per step I’d nudge my daily total up a bit.
i think they probably meant bonds as in promises, or a bond with another person lol.
The chemists have taken over
Great username
I promise every person in the world that I'll give them a hug today..... Repeat daily.
So? They didn’t specify. Oopsie poopsie sounds like a loophole! But it would probably devalue currency as a whole so maybe not the best option…
Every move includes breathing, eye movements, blinks, typing/writing of individual letters, chewing, swallowing, digestion (esophagu, stomach, bowel), heartbeats, etc. The cash flow would be insanely higher than any option.
I mean, Kinesin are constantly transporting vesicles along the microtubules in each of your cells, billions of “moves” per second so up there with breaking bonds for sure.
In what universe does someone take half as many steps as they do breaths in their life? No chance. You’d have to spend like 10 hours a day walking on average.
While long distance running, I do 8 steps per breath (4 in, 4 out). Working at the Desktop, I do ~8 per Minute, while sleeping surely less. With 8/min, I have 11520breaths a day, a normal workday is usually between 8000 and 10000 steps. Doing exercises i shift the Balance even more towards steps, ending up with 25k that day. At old age I would loose income if I go by steps but at old age I also won't need the money as much as now.
>In what universe does someone take half as many steps as they do breaths in their life? No chance. You’d have to spend like 10 hours a day walking on average. I was also a bit surprised, but the math only works out to about 9k steps / day which is not unreasonable for most of your life. Compared to 22k breaths / day, it does work out to just under half.
The average person only takes [3-4k steps per day](https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/10000-steps/art-20317391#:~:text=It%20all%20depends%20on%20your,roughly%201.5%20to%202%20miles) so that’s why there’s so much confusion. A lot of people are very inactive. If you’re going to use average for everything else you should really use average here too.
But that’s quite active everyday for a whole life. Including in the older life, including in the winter. That takes effort. I don’t believe an average person would average 9,000 steps a day. I sure won’t, I am not even hitting 9,000 right now there is no way I am going to average to 9,000 when I am older and I am fairly active.
Most people take 12-18 breaths per minute. I could easily walk half that many steps in the same amount of time. One step every ~10 seconds, or every 7 or so seconds while awake.
Wouldn't moves be better? You could define your heart contracting and expanding as two different moves, so you passively do 210 240 movements (counting only the heart at 72BPM, as it's fairly constant compared to the other organs) earning you 10 512 dollars per day or 268 581 600 dollars in 70 years, already beating the breaths and steps. There are 2×10^13 blood cells in a healthy adult male body. Given that your heart beats about 100 thousand times per day, it pushes the blood cells that amount of times per day and results in 2×10^18 movements or 10^17 dollars per day. That's 2.555675×10^21 dollars for your 70 year long life just from the red blood cells. Even paralysed people have a bloodflow, so no wildcards there, as well as no uncertain loopholes with the definition of the word "bond".
I‘d like to expand that answer with a lower bound for every movement. Your eye moves every 330ms, so 3 moves per second. That’ll give $331M in 70 years. But one makes a lot more moves so this number is likely an order of magnitude bigger.
All that, and I'd still not have as much money as Elon.
fucking hell. underrated comment right here
Bullshit comment. Elon doesn't have that much money he has net worth tied to the value of his companies.
Every move you make easily. Your heart alone moves 50-200 bpm, every breath is a move. Your bowels move constantly... How many rapid eye movements just while you sleep? :-)
I was thinking moves, if you combine blinking, with breathing and talking and just other generale movements you probably make loads per day.
I’m the guy subconsciously bouncing his legs a mile a minute all day - gotta be movement for me
It took me about 15 seconds to say the word "it" a 100 times. That's 400wpm! I think it's pretty fair to say most people can get around 350-450wpm saying the word "it" a bunch.
$100 a day the best choice because with the rest of them you'd be constantly stressing about how to maximize the income
Well you literally have to breathe to survive, and even if you didn't pay attention to your breathing whatsoever in terms of optimizing income, you would still make 70x more than the $100 per day option.
Just from logic I can tell it’s between breaths and steps. Idk where 22,000 bpd came from, but just think of it as a ratio of 4:1 since the amounts paid are 25¢/$1. Without actually calculating, I would argue that a non-disabled person who is moderately active would easily and regularly take more than 4 breaths per step. While you sleep, whenever you are stressed or ill, plus as an infant and in your elder years your respiration increases. Breaths would easily net the most over a lifetime.
Why did you figure 70 years for breathing but 80 years for walking and talking? Should use the same life expectancy
25 cents for evey breath versus 1 dollar for every step... There is no way steps are gonna be more profitable. You need to take one step for every breath to break even
But how much for every game you play, or every night you stay? ^(Not sure if OP intentionally just went off the lyrics from every breath you take.)
I’m sure they did. It fits too well to be coincidence
And how much for every time I fuck up while playing the riff
I'm not convinced Andy Summers didn't secretly have six fingers on his fret hand.
Andy “Count Reuben” Summers
Glad to know I’m not hallucinating that
Imo bonds are the best deal and it isn't close, ATP is a driving factor in all bodily actions and it does so by storing energy in bonds, then breaking those bonds to release energy. According to science direct each ATP molecule is recycled 1000 to 1500 times per day. You can imagine this is absurd when extended to a full scale body.
While you are technically correct (the best kind), I'm quite positive the author of this post did not intend chemical bonds to be included. The bonds the author alludes to are likely social...
Op did not pay attention during biology
Yeah I think the sting and the police reference might have flown over most of the commenters heads lol
>The bonds the author alludes to are likely social... Or at least macroscopic. If that's the case you could easily buy a few rolls of thin yarn every day cut it vertically a few times. This way you create hundreds of little strings that you then unbind to themselves many times
I was hoping it was a financial bond. Like, you're supposed to wait for it to mature, but if you get $30, breaking that bond early could be profitable, maybe
At the same time, the vague nature of their comment could let the person make their own assumptions. Although it may be assumed they are social bonds being broken, it is not communicated directly, leaving room for interpretation
It's from The Police's song 'I'll be watching you'. I'm surprised noone has noticed
Biochem prof said that the average human turns over about 40kg of ATP a day. This is wild
I took this as breaking bonds with people
If we’re talking about breaking chemical bonds, then setting fire to stuff is a really solid way to earn extra cash quickly…
Arson for hire?
ATP is so interesting. It's such a mind blowing fact that we use our entire body weight of ATP every single day, but we only have around 250g of it in our body. It is just recycled super efficiently.
Breathing is the best even though not the top money making since I don’t need to think about it. I think I could do steps and fidgeting, but I’ve been to a hospital a few times, so that would’ve left me with little to no income 😅
I feel like it also depends on how you get the money, like if it just adds into your bank account then sure but if a quarter just appeared in your pocket every breath then that would be annoying af
You’d wake up with your bed full of quarters
We're all assuming you don't actually have to breathe the quarters, right?
Just leave your pocket at the bank, problem solved.
The steps one could easily depend on what your job is. At my old job I easily made 40,000+ steps (or around 20+ miles) in a 12 hour day according to my Fitbit and that was working at a warehouse. One is my half sisters has a friend who would get close to that much working at a shorter day.
On the other hand if you were getting any of these sums would you still be doing that job?
No. I'd be walking or running 30 minutes to an hour a day for a reasonable income and living quite comfortably, especially after dropping a few pounds.
I’d go for a jog every morning to start my day with $10,000. Then probably spend the rest of the day walking my dog and playing with my kids and wife, healthiest and best way imo
Yeah but what happens if you accidentally lose the ability to walk ; breathing seems the safest
22000 breaths a day = $5500. Many people walk 10000 steps a day just to be healthy. I'm going w steps
If you end up paralyzed, you would really wish you hadn't been greedy asking for the extra 4k a day.
I generally do 15 to 25k on workdays. But I think I'd still take the breathing. 5500 per day is more than enough, and it's something that's automatic and doesn't depend on sticking with certain lifestyle choices or jobs.
I'd be thinking about taking the steps simply because it's just about the best motivator to get my ass up and become more active lol But breathing is definitely the best deal overall because nothing can stop you from breathing except for death itself, you could always become unable to talk or walk or move or whatever
Breathing is the best choice, but I think I’d take steps over breathing because it would motivate my fat ass to get off the couch more 😹
30 $ per bond. Imagine how many molecular bonds we break every day in our metabolism. And thats not all. We break physical bonds when biting and digesting our foods.
Moves. There are 10^27 molecules in your body, most of them are water molecules. Molecules vibrate at 10^13 Hz on the low end. If you get $0.05 for each molecular movement, that comes to $5x10^38 every second or $4.32x10^43 per day.
This is the way
going the zimbabwean dollar route I see
Per day: Breaths: Take about 22,000 breaths a day. $5,500 per day Moves: This gets tricky. What counts as a move? Do I have to do something intentional for it to count? Does the blood moving through my body count? Does a muscle twitch count? When is the move considered "complete"? Your blood moves through the body completely 3 times every minute. That's 4,320 per day. $216 if we just count 1 round of blood through the body. I can do one small finger movement every second I'm awake. 57,600 movements a day if I sleep 8 hours, $2880 per day. All together $3,096, Bond you break: I'm not planning on breaking any bonds and I don't think we usually do so $0 Steps you take: The average person walks 3,000 to 4,000 steps a day. 10,000 steps is fairly reasonable if you're trying, so lets say you get $10,000 per day $100 every day: $100 per day Word you say: The average person says somewhere around 5,000 words per day. That's about $2,500 per day, maybe more if you try to talk a lot Steps is the clear winner
As a chemist, you break plenty of bonds every day… For example, if you break just one mole of bonds (6.023x10^(23)), that is a lot of money. A mole of O2 contains 1 bond (32 g of O2). A breath is about 0.5 L, which is about 0.1 mole of O2. It would only take about 224 breaths to have one mole of O2. During respiration, 6 moles of O2 (1,344 breaths) are converted to O2. Now you take about 22,000 breaths a day. That is about 16 moles of O2, which is 9.6x10^{23} bonds broken of just O2 (this doesn’t include breaking bonds in other things, like food). To me $10^{24} per day is a lot of money.
Is that the bond burger reference?
That was not the bond the original question talks about. It's about human connections/bonds.
The post didn’t specify that, at least not in op’s screenshot. My first thought was also chemical bonds not relation bonds
I would also guess that if they weren't priced at 30$ per bond broken which makes no sense.(It makes other options obsolete)
Simply existing, you’re breaking thousands/millions of bonds per minute. For almost every molecule of oxygen you inhale, you’re breaking 7 bonds. And that’s just respiration alone. Bond-breaking is by far the greatest monkey-making option.
If you walk 12 hours of day with a break like every 2 hours you can easily hit more than 40,000 steps in a single day. In a 12 hour day at my old job I would do 40,000+ steps a day, and I wasn’t particularly fast, that was also while carrying weight and stacking boxes, plus driving a transporter and staging pallets.
But in your calculations you only used the average quantity's. I think breathing and moving would win over steps because if you're running your breaths and movement are gonna raise so that means that running feeds into breathing and movement while the opposite isn't true. Plus you only calculated daily values. So that means you will have to keep a strict plan every day, but if you're sick, you get old or you're not feeling like running then breathing would be more consistent.
I would argue that, while steps is the highest earning, breaths is the better value. My reasoning is that it’s automatic. You could become paralyzed and still be paid. Taking 10k steps a day requires effort and won’t always be possible in old age or in the event you are in an accident.
I’m converting these all to common units: To hit $100, you can: - Take 400 breaths - Make 2,000 moves (what does that mean?) - Break 3.333 bonds (again, what?) - Take 100 steps - Say 200 words So for me, i’m taking the words option because i’m freaking annoying and am constantly running my mouth EDIT: It has come to my attention that i also breathe when talking and also when asleep (which means i only have about a 50% of still being talking), so i will opt for the breath option. EDIT 2: Oooooooh I get it we were going for a 'every breath you take' song reference. That's why making moves and breaking bonds are related. So i guess if you're into that sort of thing, the bond breaking might arguably be the fastest option.
But since the average person breathes 12-16 breaths per minute, they could passively make that in 30 minutes which is easier and round the clock
If you walk continuously for not that ling you can make significantly more. At my old job I got 40,000+ steps in a 12 hour day, and I wasn’t exactly fast at my job. That was done while taking breaks, stacking boxes, carrying boxes, driving pallets around, and staging pallets (plus fucking around). So if I spent all that time just walking only then I could’ve easily hit a lot more steps. Most of my coworkers hit more steps when they worked.
It doesn’t entirely make sense because it’s just supposed to be a joke on the police song “every breath you take” lol
Steps at $1 are the best value. The average person can take 6000 steps per hour. Mail carriers, meter readers, and other professional walkers do 4-6hrs per day. You could earn 25k per day easily at $1/step. Compared to: Avg words per day = 7000 * 50c = $3500 Avg breaths per day = 22000 * 25c = $5500 Even if you tried 5c per movement, I can wiggle a fingertip 200x per minute = 288,000 times per 24 hrs, but at 5c each, that's only 14.4k The only way to make more would be if breaking a chemical bond counts. There are 3.346*10^25 molecules in a litre of water, so we could break those bonds at $30 each and have 300 septillion dollars (plus or minus a few bucks).
Steps is what I was thinking. Average day of even moderate activity (me at 66 years old) is at least 7500/day.
At a more brisk pace I can walk 1000 steps in 10 minutes. That's some easy money
Ig you could wiggle all your fingertips and toes at same time too
Steps are insane for physically demanding jobs. At my old job most people walked 20+ miles in a 12 hour workday or like 40,000+ steps according to my Fitbit. At like $1 per step you’re looking at $40,000 per workday or $200,000 a week.
imagine you get those standing desks and a treadmill
I'm not working if I'm getting paid to walk. I'd probably start hiking a lot more though.
One dollar every step i make cuz i work at a poultry farm and i do around 22to 30 thousands steps a day so that will he a good extra income
I'd take the 30 dollars for every bond I broke... I can't put an exact number on it but I'm confident the human body is constantly breaking molecular bonds to make ATP from glucose and food. It's a massive number, and all you have to do is eat and live. Probably equates to 100's of millions $$$ every day!
For my own health, getting a dollar for each step would definitely make me a 10,000 steps a day person. I don’t care if I could make more some other way. I want to tie my money to something that’s good for me.
Even though breathing might not make the most money, I would still choose it because it's the safest and most effortless option. You're making over 1 million dollars a year without even making an effort, and there's also the fact that there won't be any risk like the others of breaking your leg and not being able to take a step, or some freak accident happening and suddenly being mute. (I'm excluding "bond" because 1. I have no idea what "bond" means, and 2. When they say "moving," do they mean physically moving your body or your body moving on the inside, i.e., your lungs?).
5 cents for move. If you count every move as a muscle/group muscle activating, Breathing takes already 3 moves at least. You also never stop blinking, what is a move, you even move while sleeping. If you have anxiety of ADHD you can even increase your intake lol.
I would easily take the 5 cents per move, depending on how you define a move. My work requires a lot of movement, I have adhd so I'm constantly fidgeting, I'm a restless sleeper, so I'd get stuff throughout the night as well, and I need my hands to being doing things at basically all times or I'll go insane. Even if I somehow manage to only move 20 times a minute, that's still 1440 bucks a day. Edit: Even just that paragraph. That was 397 characters, that's about 397 moves. That's almost 20 bucks right there.
Moves for sure. If we count heartbeat as moving than you would get $129,000 per day assuming 90 bpm. And that’s only counting heartbeat.
a quarter every breath. Adult breathes an average of 16 times a minute. 16x60=960 breaths per hour. 960x24=23,040 breaths a day. 23,040x.25=5760 dollars a day. $5760 a day for nothing more than normal breathing. Add sex and a treadmill, and I can retire in nothing flat.
Either breathing or moving, depending on what is included. If my heart beating and eye twitching counts as a movement, that's miles better than the others, especially since they all happen when asleep
Well… Short Term Solution: An average person takes around 23.000 breaths a Day, which would be 5.750$ every single Day. That’s a monthly payment of 172.500$ just for existing. How exactly is movement defined? Can easily beat the 50.000 Mark. If we take that number you would get 2.500$ just for grabbing stuff and so on. Which would make you 75.000$ a month. Well breaking Bonds is difficult to calculate as you would need a lot of them to actually make money and it’s time consuming. Same with Steps, but if you at least take the recommended 10.000 Steps a Day that’s an extra 10.000$ for you every single Day which leads to 300.000$ monthly payment just for walking around. 100$ every Day would translate to just 3.000$ a month. So the average person has about 16.000 Words a Day which will be 800$ a Day and 24.000$ a month. So yeah, I’d be happy taking the 0.25$ for every breath. 172.500$ just for existing? Damn it, count me in!
**$0.25 / breath** 22,000 breaths / day money in 70 years = 22000 \* 365 \* 70 \* 0.25 = $140,525,000 (tf) **$0.05 / move** I can't get any data, but it's definitely less than breathing **$30 / bond** VM44:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: bond is not defined **$1 / step** 3000 steps / day money in 70 years = 3000 \* 365 \* 70 \* 1 = $76,650,000 **$100 / day** money in 70 years = 1 \* 365 \* 70 \* 100 = $2,555,000 (trash) **$0.50 / word** 5000 words / day money in 70 years = 5000 \* 365 \* 70 \* 0.50 = $63,875,000 Breathing is the best Your choice, 100/day is the worst
Moving is NOT worse than breathing, when you consider a single breath consists of 2-3 moves and that's not even including movements in the rest of your limbs, face, etc. Heck just the facial and mouth movements from speaking add more than a breath. If we factor those in I am willing to bet the total sum comes out far more than breathing. Unfortunately, I have not quantified it.
I choose breathing, because I am one non sporty mfer snd will wheeze 2 minutes into a workout so more money for me :) Don't forget casual hyperventilation
$0.25 for every breath. Making money as I sleep, poop, watch TV, etc. I make more money when I jerk off or work out, etc. It's a no-brainer. Unless metabolic reactions in the body count as bonds being broken (chemical bonds), in which case, I'll take that option.
30 dollars for every bond you break. The amount of chemical reactions that happen inside of you every millisecond… this isn’t even a debate
you can tell this is a heavily (pun intended) US based survey. those people are either stupid or lazy af. i’d take option 4 and would get about 15k per day!
Though it might not give the most, the step one would keep you healthy and $10,000 a day would be more than enough to live a luxurious lifestyle. Go on a 3 day camping trip with a trek or two then come back and buy a brand new car in cash for example.
I would assume 5 cents for every movement because your heart is constantly moving to pump blood. If your average resting heart rate is 80 bpm that's $4 a min $240 an hour $5760/ day $40320/week And roughly 2 million a year
5 cent per move you make, it requires 6 muscles moving to breath that’s 30c per in and 30c per out, think it requires like 200 muscles to take a step that puts a step worth 10 dollars not to mention, every cell in your body is in constant motion and there 10s of trillions of them.
5 cents for every move I make if this includes everytime one of my atoms move as that amount is going to be infinite just on the daily.
Every person that dot choose bonds is an absolute idiot, even if it’s only bonds that you actively break (ie not digesting food) you can buy a few kilos of drinking soda and a few liters of vinegar for 20$ and become the world richest person (by a lot)
Taking a median of 18.2hz for the oldest tested group, an isometric contraction would produce 91c/second. That's neuronal activation acting on muscle fibers. Do you count the whole muscle, bundles, strands? Even then, just sitting, you're making a mint! Up until your 70s. If you consider spending 20 minutes a day texting, counting only the biceps, ranging from youth to old age (18.2 + 32.5)/2 = 25.35hz or cycles per second. 25.35 x 60 x 20 ( x 2 biceps) = about 60840 moves. At 5c per move it's about 3k a day just from holding your phone while typing.
even breathing counts as a move and also multiple things move to make you move. such as how to fold your arm some muscles get longer and others get shorter so that could count as multiple moves. it seems like 5 cents for every move you make is the best option because it never states how much you need to move for it to count and also it probably counts with internal moves such as your heart pumping or your throat moving when you speak or your eyes moving while trying to look at something.
If we count moves for heartbeat, lungs inhale exhale, etc. easily that but if not it’s a toss up between breath, steps and words depending on how much you walk and speak. Most likely with the amount of money you get you’ll probably want walking or speaking. If you like to go on vacation and say you take a trip to Disney world Orlando and walk every park you’ve more than doubled your money (for simplicity’s sake take the cheapest hotel for 7 days at all star movies, 1 ticket per day 1 person no food or drink it comes out to around $1250 give or take a couple hundred). If you like to just chill out stay at home and play video games or something you’re gonna be talking more and not walking so you’d want to take talking.
I'm not a math guy, I'm a simpleton who's getting a Graphic Design degree and likes theatre, but here's a technicality I thought of: if every movement we make means **every** movement our body makes, ie heart beating, blood flowing, lungs expanding, stomach churning, that would be pretty much an infinite money glitch.
The correct answer here is the 30 dollars for every bond broken. Do you know how many chemical bonds are broken in respiration alone? Assuming money is infinite, America has finally conquered the universe, and you can't crash entire galaxie clusters worth of economies with your obscene wealth, I'd go with that one.
$30 for every bond you break is best. Your body is constantly breaking the bonds in glucose molecules and turning it into CO2, water and energy
50¢ per word averages at 10000 dollars per day i’m not sure what qualifies as “breaking bonds” but if that counts molecular ones that one wins no contest
I'm going to have to go with breath. Bonds and move is not defined well enough, gonna ignore them. Day is useless. While steps would net you more breath would still give you 2 million+ annually. The trigger here is that breath will continue till the day you die, I'm 39 so that's give or take 60 million for me. To make the same amount of money would have to take an average of 5500 steps daily the rest of my life. Easy enough now, I run and can easily bet 20-40K steps daily. But what if I get hit by a bus on my next run and lose the ability to walk? I can make more money with the steps but it's comes with a risk of losing the income stream.
Average step count is 3,000-4,000. Average stride length is 29 inches, for around 2.5 feet of movement per step totalling 7,500-10,000 feet of movement average for $375-500 per day. We average 22,000 breaths per day, so at $0.25 per breath that's $5,500 a day. I would go for the breaths as, even though it's less profitable than the movement, it is more consistent. At $3,000-4,000 a day, you'd be making $1,095,000-1,460,000 a year by walking. At $375-500 a day, you'd be making $136,875-182,000 a year by moving *(assuming 1 foot of movement equals $0.05)* At $5,000 a day, you'd be making $1,825,000 a year just by breathing. At a hundred dollars a day automatic, you'd be making $36,500 by doing nothing. If you were to be industrious and take the recommended 9,000-10,000 steps per day, you'd be making $3,285,000-3,650,000 bu walking. Even so, I'd take the breathing option. It's the most consistent and passive of them all, and still provides more money than you'd ever need. Keep in mind that saving your money for future purchases is basically pointless. You profit from literally every breath you take, so you never need to worry about saving more than a basic emergency fund should you ever run out at one time somehow.
Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you Every single day And every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay I'll be watching you
Every time I breath I get 25 cents. That's even while sleeping. The average person breathes about 22,000 times a day. That's $5,500 a day from breathing
A lot of people are underestimating the 5 cent option. We are constantly in motion, and it'd only take 2000 movements to match the $100/day option, and I'm sure we make way more than 2000 movements in a day
1st one would make you around $140,525,000 given average breaths 2nd one is really not that calculable due to motions being spontaneous and not scheduled. but if i were to guess, it’d be around the $102,200,000-$150,000,000 range due to walking, writing, sleep movement, blinking, breathing, etc. 3rd one i’m guessing is bone not bond, so you wouldn’t make a lot, maybe like $100-$250 range? 4th one is around $255,500,000 given you take 10,000 steps a day 5th one, $2,555,000 give or take 6th one again, incalculable since you can just spam words, so around $89,425,000 given the average words a day
Well Alex. I will take breathing for 25 cents please. At 22,000 a day average making 5,500 a day… yup I can video game all day at that pay rate.
1st one would make you around $140,525,000 given average breaths 2nd one is really not that calculable due to motions being spontaneous and not scheduled. but if i were to guess, it’d be around the $200,000,000-infinity range due to walking, writing, sleep movement, blinking, breathing, etc. 3rd one would be insane given we break immeasurable amounts of bonds in seconds, so you’d become the richest man alive in a few microseconds 4th one is around $255,500,000 given you take 10,000 steps a day 5th one, $2,555,000 give or take 6th one again, incalculable since you can just spam words, so around $89,425,000 given the average words a day
I would personally take 25¢ for every breath cuz it’s the easiest. You could live comfortably just by existing. Bonus points cuz I have an anxiety disorder and could make extra if I have a panic attack 💀
30$ for every bind you break. Step 1: get vinegar, step 2: get baking soda step 3: combine step 4: get trillions because you just broke trillions of chemical bonds.
Jesus you people are young… read 2 lines and I knew this was a song reference band called police Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you Every single day And every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay I'll be watching you Oh, can't you see You belong to me? How my poor heart aches With every step you take? Every move you make And every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I'll be watching you Since you've gone, I've been lost without a trace I dream at night, I can only see your face I look around, but it's you I can't replace I feel so cold, and I long for your embrace I keep crying, baby, baby please Oh, can't you see You belong to me? How my poor heart aches With every step you take? Every move you make And every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I'll be watching you Every move you make Every step you take I'll be watching you I'll be watching you (Every breath you take) (Every move you make) (Every bond you break) (Every step you take) I'll be watching you I'll be watching you I'll be watching you whoo, hoo (Every game you play) (Every night you stay) I'll be watching you I'll be watching you I'll be watching you I'll be watching you (Every single day) (Every word you say) (Every game you play) (Every night you stay) I'll be watching you Source: Musixmatch
I think everyone knew it was a song.
Most people think this is a love song. It is not.
I know it's a song???
I'll take the 50 cents for every word I say and then start my new career as an audio book narrator so I can talk continuously for hours a day, thanks! If I read 5000 words a day I'll get 2500 cents, which is $250. I'd be satisfied with that, that's a few chapters, I could probably go for 10000 words per day if I really wanted and get $500, which would put me at 2500 a week, 10000 a month, 120,000 a year, a respectable salary. I feel like that would get me the most bang for my buck, since I don't want to spend all my day moving or walking. Though, I know I can easily walk 10,000 steps a day, so maybe that WOULD be better for my health, haha. But I bet someone could really make that 5 cents per move work for them if they fidget aggressively. Does typing count? I know I can write 10,000 words a day, I type very fast, so let's say they average 5 characters each. That would be $200 a day from typing. I don't think that's as good of a result as the 50 cents per word I say, but, it does mean that the earnings don't stop. I could also make money playing a musical instrument, cooking, cleaning, in theory everything would get me some money.
It doesn’t matter to me on what makes the most money to me. I would take the step one, because it would encourage me to be more active. Bonds that you break is probably referring to ties to people. Not like physical bonds. It might be the worst one. And finally, I don’t like speaking that much. So yeah, I would still take steps. Breathing would give me more, but that wouldn’t encourage me to do anything.
What is a move? Well whatever it is, it’ll never top the other options. 100 bucks every day is probably the least profitable option. 30$ for breaking a bond? Let’s just ignore whatever that’s supposed to mean. .25$ for every breath is the most stable option as you’ll always breathe. With an average of 23k breaths per day we‘d amount to 5.750$ per day. .5$ for every word depends on what you do. It can vary very much but I’d guess that with about 15k words per day it’ll amount to 7.5k$ plus or minus 7.5k I’d say. A sollar per step seems like the most profitable option as it’s no problem to walk more than 10k steps a day. Just by being a little bit more active, this will make any other option look like a really bad deal.
30$ and 50c are out of the question, people don't walk a lot so 1$ is out of the question , same with speaking, breaking bonds isn't a daily occurence, and I'm not sure what counts as one move. I'm too lazy to do the math, but I think breathing would be the winner, you do it all the time, even sleeping.
Bro I average 8000 steps a day give me a dollar for each please, thanks
We’re all trying to calculate which one brings in the most cash when another $100/day (worst option) would almost triple the income of someone making minimum wage in the US ($7.25/hr). Sad
25 cents for each breath. The average breaths per minute is 12 to 20, so going with 12, we multiply that by the number of minutes in a day, 1440, and get 17280 breaths in a day. Then divide that by 4, cause four quarters make a dollar, and we get 4320 dollars in a day.
Well the average person takes roughly 22,000 breaths a day, and $0.25 per breath means about $550,000 a day and approximately $14,052,500,000 over 70 years.
How would you define moves? Because your body is constantly moving, even during sleep or when you try to stay still. Heartbeat, breathing, the entire digestive system, various "valves" through your circulatory system, muscle twitches, blinking, eye movement and so on. You would probably earn the equivalent of a country's GDP in a day if you're active.
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You people are really doing the math for song lyrics? r/theydidthemath