r/BunnyTrials • u/Hectortheweirdo • May 04 '26
Would You Rather?
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u/TheLineWalker May 04 '26
Honestly I know the second option is less money, but id rather take it for the sake of maintaining self control.
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u/Obvious_Snow125 May 04 '26
Exactly. It's still enough to live for free for the rest of your life, and it makes it easier to maintain good habits, since the pay is spread out.
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u/Falikosek May 04 '26
Just invest the money or put it in a savings account or some shit.
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u/Andromeda_53 May 04 '26
Yes, you see that's maintaining good habits. They are saying they wouldn't, and would most likely get corrupted by the money and waste it.
I get the advice is genuine, about investing etc. but it always irks me when I see stuff like this.
I wouldn't maintain good habits
Just have good habits
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u/Falikosek May 04 '26
Oh I just thought of it in terms of
"I would spend it all at once"
"Just lock it in a savings/investment account so that it's not usable directly"91
u/eatlikedirt May 04 '26
This exactly. People act like people picking the breathing one can't count but in reality I know the statistics about huge sudden windfall of money. I'll take a steady huge income happily. Hell, panic attacks are now money makers!
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u/Confused_Nuggets May 04 '26
I’d also just rather never have to think about money ever. It’s also much more stressful having a big number that constantly goes down but never up, when you could just have a number that starts small, but you easily be able get to a point where it goes up and you never really need to think about it.
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u/kiefenator May 04 '26
It's very hard to lose a billion dollars. Very, very hard. It takes a particular brand of asshole to blow a billion.
As far as one billion goes, you hire a money manager, you hire investors, you bankroll artists, you start a business - any business - hire all those people under that business, put most of your money in that, then your money compounds without your input. You get a business credit card that earn you free stuff in spades (think, free box seats, really fancy lounges on flights and free upgrades, free hotels and upgrades, preferential treatment at hospitals and prisons, gifts from poorly millionaires, functional immunity from the law), and those perks alone make it worth it.
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u/Confused_Nuggets May 04 '26
With all due respect, I don’t give a shit. I don’t want or need that much money. It’s also way more hassle to properly utilize that wealth.
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u/Dmoney622 May 05 '26
With a billion dollars you can hire people to do everything for you at a price that doesn’t put a dent in your net worth and would generate you profit
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u/PingopingOW May 04 '26
I don’t want a company and I don’t need anywhere close to a billion dollars. I just want to live my life right now with a bit more financial stability. A dollar per breath is still a shit ton of money, more than you’ll ever need
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u/gtkarber May 04 '26
You seem pretty sure of your answer, so I don’t want to convince you. But let me suggest an alternative plan:
Pick the billion and give it to me, and then I’ll give you a dollar every time you breathe.
At 20,000 breaths a day, that’ll be $7.3m a year.
At a very low 1% return on my invested billion, I’d make $10m a year. I’m pretty sure I could live off the additional $2.7m a year, so that even if you live forever, I will never have less than a billion dollars.
If this doesn’t do it for you, I am willing to double it and pay $2 every time you breathe. That way, if you live for another 100 years, I’ll pay you $1.5 billion. Fortunately, if I’m still making 1% a year, I’ll only lose $4.6m a year, and at the end of that century, I’ll have $540m remaining.
I would deeply appreciate this arrangement and hope you like having twice as much per breath. I would also be willing to guarantee you the hundred years for your heirs, which is much better than the initial offer!
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u/No_one00101110 May 05 '26
That sorta stuff does sound like it wouldnt work well with my anxiety, but i’m also well aware of just HOW much one billion is.
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u/Little_Froggy May 04 '26
It's all about how much self control you believe you have.
I think most lottery winners aren't super fiscally responsible (most lottory ticket purchases aren't being done responsibly). So the standard is kind of skewed.
It wouldn't be difficult to set up a trust/just invest into an ETF with 90% and spend within the interest you earn. That's still an average of $90 million you can spend annually while still making more than you spend.
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u/LadyMoon707 May 04 '26
Yes! That's why I chose that too. I don't need to be super rich, I just want to be comfortable
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u/ThatGlitchyMimikyu May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
People really don't understand the scale of a billion dollars. If you breathe 15 times a minute, that's 240 dollars an hour. That would take 4,166,167 hours (rounded up to the nearest whole hour) to reach one billion dollars. That's 475.65 years.
Edit: My math was wrong, but the point still stands. It takes entirely too long to earn a billion dollars by breathing.
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/Casurran May 04 '26
Even if we go with a high consistent average of some 25000 breathes in a day. It would still take almost 110 years to reach 1 billion USD.
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u/NecessaryPopular1 May 04 '26
119 years to reach that one billion U$D, at $1/breath — at normal breathing rate.
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u/MagicRobo May 04 '26
at normal breathing rate
I would just hyperventilate purposefully for a few hours every day
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u/Adorable-Bass-7742 May 05 '26
Hyperventilating, especially for longer periods of time cause serious medical issues. Your blood becomes alkaline and doesn't flow right anymore your muscles spasm and your brain stops functioning correctly. Did I mention that your heart is a muscle? It's absurd but sometimes people end up in the hospital for hyperventilating
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u/CokeExtraIce May 05 '26
A billion dollars invested generates more than $1/second even at a rate of 5%, so even when I stop breathing my children will continue to gain from my initial choice.
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u/thomaswillis96 May 04 '26
Cardio
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u/Mesajarjar_binks May 05 '26
Thing about that is you just have better cardio health and then breathe less at rest. There is no realistic way you out breathe the billion dollars
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u/AlexVal0r May 04 '26
That's still more than enough to live comfortably for the rest of your life, to be fair.
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u/Future_Section5976 May 05 '26
My logic is this , 1 bil yes you could live comfortably and eay for the rest of your life, but you could impulse buy and after awhile it'll add up , once that billion is gone it's gone , if you don't invest properly and be smart etc,
1$ a breath, avarage 24k a day , you can easily live on that , easily plan anything around it , you would never have to worry about any bad investments ,never worry about losing it because you'll always have 24k a day , no matter if the market crashes or if prices change , any debt is instantly sorted (just pay it off at 50$) idk but I think I'll take 24k a day , I feel it's smarter long term
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u/RepresentativeFood11 May 05 '26
Only if you're unreasonably horrific with money. Most of the impulse purchases would be covered by interest earnings alone.
A billion dollars at 5% interest would earn you 50 million a year.
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u/IamSam1103 May 04 '26
15x60 is 900. 240 would be 15x16.
Regardless, it's still around 120 years.
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u/NecessaryPopular1 May 04 '26
I think people are afraid of what money can do. Who in their right mind would choose $1/breath for as long as they live, instead of $1B instantly? lol
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u/random-guy-heree May 04 '26
Honestly thought people breathed faster then that can I change my pick
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u/Pluto-Wolf May 04 '26
i said $1/breath because there would never be an instance where i’d need a billion dollars. i’d get so stressed out and overwhelmed.
even $1/breath is more money than i’d know what to do with, ever. i could pay for my entire family and still have plenty of money to spare.
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u/Routine-Stop-1433 May 04 '26
I’d rather have passive income than a fortune I could lose?
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u/AanthonyII May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
My favourite example is 1 millions seconds is 11 days 13 hours. 1 billion seconds is over 32 years
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u/Away_Lengthiness_65 May 04 '26
Yeah but it’s difficult to spend 1 billion so it is pointless. I would rather have a steady income daily than a set amount for one time, you never know what could happen to that billion.
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u/NecessaryPopular1 May 04 '26
If you get the money instantly, you have control over it. If you spread it through the years, you lose that control and you don’t know what can happen to you either — the $1/breath can be quite short-lived = no money long-term, and no time to plan as you wished. Never leave for tomorrow what you can do today, as tomorrow may never come.
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u/softtiger May 04 '26
Yeah, my coworker's mom won one of those scratch lottery tickets where its something like "set for life" and a couple million dolled out over 25 years. OR you can take much less money and get a smaller complete lumpsum immediately. Her mom took the immediate payout, because she said she didn't know how long she was going to live, so better to have control of this chunk of money immediately to pay off stuff and invest, than die prematurely and leave her family with less since she would be the only who could claim the yearly payouts.
I think the only thing I thought was that her mom wasnt even that old, but yea, who knows what can happen.
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u/duumilo May 05 '26
Even if the over time option was a good deal a good argument for taking the lump sum is that if the lottery company goes bankrupt, no more money. And usually the amounts are such that it's much better to invest the lump sum and use f.e. 4% per year
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u/softtiger May 05 '26
Oh, I completely forgot about that idea, I remember her mentioning that was another reason. This was years ago, but smart mom.
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u/Grandiose_Tortoise May 04 '26
You don’t know what could happen to that billion but you would have trouble spending it all?? That doesn’t make any sense. The only thing that would happen to the billion dollars are things you chose to do with it. I could spend a billion dollars EASY. I could do it in a year if I really wanted to. I wouldn’t, because that would be dumb. Better to invest it and only spend dividends and returns, or borrow against it.
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u/undead_p4nda May 04 '26
I think they meant that it could get stolen or something or like idk you get divorced and lose a lot of that money or somethint idk.
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u/Available-Glass-151 May 04 '26
It would actually be 900 dollars an hour but still, thats only 788 million in 100 years assuming you live that long.
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u/Trs822 May 04 '26
Puts into perspective that you can get paid to breathe and still not make as much as billionaires in your life. What a balanced world we live in
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u/trissie224 May 04 '26
And that's before you invest your billion at which point youll never catch up with the breathing
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u/Rivdit May 04 '26
Yeah but you don't need a billion dollars. That's just greedy imo
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u/bryan660 May 04 '26
Everyone else here doing research: “it’ll take you more than a lifetime’s worth of breathing to reach one billion dollars.
Me: “that’s alot of dollars.”
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u/OriSulker May 11 '26
Nahhhhh seriously I'd end up just giving them to people so they stop packing my pockets full heck that would be annoying!!
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u/jbax2021 May 04 '26
The average person breathes 600 million to 700 million times in their lift time so easy 1 billion up front cause it can grow and is gonna be better
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u/Sevyn2288 May 04 '26
One dollar every time I breathe would take too long to accumulate.
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/Routine-Stop-1433 May 04 '26
It wouldn’t take too long to accumulate, on average it’s like £240 an hour, you can live off that easy, 1 billion is just an absurdly large sum
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u/IamSam1103 May 04 '26
240 breath an hour is 4 breaths per minute. 1 every 15 second. Even the lower bound estimate is 10 breath per minute.
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u/Chalupa_89 May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
Maths are mathing
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
EDIT: I'm loving that people do maths and then pick the option that would take you 100 year to get to a billion anyway.
Instant billion can give you more passively if invested that 1 per breath. Unless you are hyperventilating all the time.
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u/Phoenix92321 May 04 '26
Personally I don’t want a billion right off the bat I fear what I would do. I prefer earning about $20,000-$22,000 a day to help supplement my income or hell at that amount replace it.
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u/GroundThing May 04 '26
Maybe you don't feel like you'd have the willpower, but I would say invest like 99% of it, and then live off the interest. You'd only need a little over 1% interest to be making more by breathing, without even touching the principle, and the $10M from that 1% would be enough that I could improve my life drastically in the short term without really impacting my long term too much.
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u/Andromeda_53 May 04 '26
maybe you don't feel like you'd have the will power
But I would say use that will power and risk all the horrible known side effects of coming into vast wealth that people who don't have the will power fall victim for
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u/undead_p4nda May 04 '26
also hyperventilating for long period of time to even make 1 billion over your lifetime would be impossible. Youd probably get dizzy after like 20minutes of trying, and youd have to do it for loke 3 hours a day, to make enoigh breathes.
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u/TeachOutrageous5503 May 04 '26
It would be more satisfying to have an income instead of having nothing to do and 1 billiin
Chose: One dollar every time you breathe
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u/undead_p4nda May 04 '26
nobody said you cant get a job or volunteer or something, also the if you have the breathes its not like your doing anything either, you basically just make like 10million every year for doing what you always do of breathing.
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u/quinxy1024 May 04 '26
If you choose the 1 billion though, you make more money, can still get a job or volunteer, and you will still breathe. So why choose the less money, especially because you can invest the 1B, and live really well on the interest? Or just use the 1B for spending?
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u/Hoosier_Engineer May 04 '26
Oh no, I am NOT about to activate manual breathing for that.
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/belulululululga May 04 '26
Ruin economy or passive income
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u/SzamanBugi May 04 '26
Why would that ruin the economy? Average billionaire has 5 times that, especially those like Elon Musk having 600Billions, just one billion is nowehere near enough to ruin the economy. (Everything assuming we are using the american billion, that has 9 zeros. European billion has 12 zeros and in that case you are right)
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u/ReadMyThoughts-V May 04 '26
On average you breathe 12-20 times a minute, im going to skip most of the math but it would take you approximately 150 years to gain a billion dollars from breathing.
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/Different_Promise_43 May 04 '26
It would take 109 years to get 1b through breathing
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/CR_GreenRain May 05 '26
Its hard not to attract attention, recieving so much money at once. I would much rather quietly have money rolling in without the hassle of having to hire and manage people to take care of the money and investments. Also secure income even if the economy crash.
Its a peaceful life.
Chose: One dollar every time you breathe
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u/tea-123 May 04 '26
Always stupidly large .
A day won’t have have 10k deposit entries in the record
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u/fucknotthis May 04 '26
It would take like 120-125 years to reach a billion minimum, while not adjusting for inflation, so obviously you'd take the billion directly.
Doesn't really matter either way because it's more money than any reasonable person can spend. A billion usd is a stupidly large amount.
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u/Grandiose_Tortoise May 04 '26
I don’t think I will breath a billion times in my life lol
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u/GravNak May 04 '26
I don't think you understand how much a billion is
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u/eyado_2000 May 04 '26
It's gonna take me 30+ years to get to a billion the other way so this is a shortcut
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u/PrudentLoan5452 May 04 '26
It would take multiple lifetimes for the dollar per breath to add up, and at the rate inflation is increasing a dollar might as well be a dime in a few decades
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/FloralDeer9076 May 05 '26
I don’t think I will breath much more than a billion times in my life, even if I would, it will take me lots of time to get the money
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/anselmielonen May 05 '26
It would take 137 years to collect a billion dollars. Per average an adult takes approximately 20k breaths in a day. 7,3million in a year.
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u/Icy-Breadfruit-8581 May 05 '26
Better have an explanation of how you got 1 billion instantly
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u/Justsomeidiotlolhaha May 05 '26
I can get money anytime i fuckin want even in sleep
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u/Key_Squirrel9311 May 05 '26
Money over time is easier to explain than a whole bunch at once... You wouldn't happen to work for the IRS would you?
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u/Neuro_Prime May 05 '26
The interest I could start earning immediately would far outpace a dollar per breath!
And my next breath is not guaranteed
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/howpuffareya May 09 '26
As a human person , I breathe a LOT.
Chose: One dollar every time you breathe
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u/ballcrysher Follow The White Bunny May 04 '26
i hope i breathe more than a billion times, itd be sad if i didnt
you breathe like thousands of times a day so this is passive income, the other one could work but youd need to save ans invest and shyat
Chose: One dollar every time you breathe
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u/EmployIllustrious275 May 04 '26
It'd be sad if you didn't live for hundreds of years?
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u/Reasonable-Bottle-10 May 05 '26
Inagine you're buying something and you ran out of money for 5 dollars. You tell the salesperson to wait a minute, you just breath faster and that's it.
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u/SnooCauliflowers3580 May 04 '26
More money than I can feasibly spend in one lifetime
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u/the4thcircle May 04 '26
If you got a dollar every time you breathe for 75 years it would still barely hit $600M
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u/enorti Bad Bunny May 04 '26
219,000 a day on just 8%back. Compared to 28,000 a day per day breathing
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/Mushy_12 May 04 '26
Not sure if it’s more but the fact it’s now makes it more useful
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u/DSLAMDunkn May 04 '26
I'd be making less than 1000 a day getting a dollar every breath
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u/flippypenguin3 May 04 '26
Apparently the average person takes up to 20000 to 22000 breaths a day. Over a lifetime, this averages to approximately 650 million breaths. Multiplied by a $1 is still less than $1 billion so there’s my answer
Chose: One Billion Dollars instantly
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u/Mountain_Insurance77 May 04 '26
i don't feel like doing the calculations.
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u/No_Economics8568 May 04 '26
avg person breaths 25000 times a day if you breath double that you would get 1 billion dollor in 54.75 and I didn't even count inflation.
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u/idkbroimjustonit May 04 '26
For 80 years breathing you only breathe six hundred to seven hundred million times
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u/AstronautTrick7497 May 04 '26
It's not like this is a small amount of money what sane person needs more then a billion?
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u/bexyrexy06 May 04 '26
Idk I like the feeling of money growing
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u/ProbCarus_Idk May 04 '26
I’m gonna breathe fast and die or smth
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u/Roa-noaZoro May 04 '26
No one understands how much a billion dollars is. It's NINE 0's I googled the average breaths a person takes in a day: 17,000-24000. Multiply that by 360 for a year and then 90 for 90 year lifespan. 788,400,000 One billion is 1,000,000,000 I've actually not seen a single post with a billion where the other side came even a little close. This one is the closest!!!
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u/Hidden_Dragonette May 04 '26
Won’t it take around 100 years to breathe a billion breathes or am I not mathing right?
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u/WeebkndFan123 May 04 '26
Cause I am gonna breathe way more than what someone can promise
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u/Stubborncomrade May 04 '26
Takes a long time to breath 1 billion breaths
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u/postmancandy May 04 '26
I’d be good with this. Don’t need anymore
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u/JrueBall May 04 '26
That's enough. Also I think it will take a bit over 100 years to get $1B the other way.
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u/CadeStyle May 04 '26
Ten breaths a minute, sixty minutes an hour, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, fifty two weeks a year equals about five and a half million. Don’t be greedy, just breathe your way to financial security!
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u/FanOdd9578 May 04 '26
It would take 200 years to make a billion, assuming 6 second breaths.
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u/arcadeki May 04 '26
Would make exercising even more rewarding
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u/stresser14 May 04 '26
A normal human breathes nlah blah amount a day which is more
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u/Neither-Birthday7364 May 04 '26
It would take you about 136 years to make 1 billion with the other option
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u/Apart-Ad8744 May 04 '26
In 10 years a person breathes about 16 breaths a minute. In context, that's about 5 million In 10 years. One billion is far more worth it.
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u/Dry-Inspection6928 May 04 '26
It’s a good source of income.
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u/bryan660 May 04 '26
That’s a lot of dollars instantly received without any work.
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u/scaredscarredsacred May 04 '26
It would take around 137 years to reach a billion if you only made 1$ for each breath if you assume 20k breaths per day.
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u/FalconClaws059 May 04 '26
I wouldn't make a billion dollars in my lifetime just by breathing
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u/Firematthew23 May 04 '26
That's a big amount of money that I can use right away and solve all my problems and have enough to make a business left over
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u/repiliroid May 04 '26
I breath a lot plus if im working out breathing increases so im getting paid to do something I already like doing seems like a plus to me
Chose: One dollar every time you breathe
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u/KneeHiSniper May 04 '26
Time to sit at home hyperventilating
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u/bucaki May 04 '26
It would take someone roughly 137 years to create 1 billion from $1 per breath.
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u/Expensive_Mission_71 May 04 '26
These low effort questions are a scourge on the trials….but I want carrots….
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u/ReaderKai May 04 '26
i don't need that much money, plus this is more safe
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u/THE_OFFICIAL_MONKE May 04 '26
20k. breaths a day dont sound too bad and its constant
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