• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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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!

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    Man can be free only when and if he’s able to rise above his insecurities

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    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.

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      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.

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      Yeah, this makes sense. Think the thought still holds though. Just needs to be explained with the normal distribution meme.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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    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.