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.
The ability to be spontaneous doesn’t change.
It’s what you can do spontaneously that changes.
I can’t spontaneously just take off to Japan; but I can spontaneously take a walk around town or go to a park.
I mean…it depends on the job? I go on walks during working hours all the time to clear my head and think about a problem I’m working on. I don’t try to hide this from my manager.
Most financially secure people still work full time. I suppose that in theory, they’re able to quit their jobs without suffering immediate, catastrophic consequences but if they actually did that sort of thing, they wouldn’t be financially secure for long.
(In my experience, many financially secure people actually work much more than full time. I think they would be better off if they didn’t because at some point time becomes more valuable than money, but they have the sort of personality that compels them to. This is often related to starting out without financial security.)
The very rich can do crazy stuff without consequences but they’re such a small part of the population that I don’t think comparing oneself to them is useful.
If you don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re”, you’re probably getting fired at some point anyway
It’s not difficult and you could learn it in the space of a short walk
It’d impress your boss
It’s annoying when people get pedantic about spelling on the internet, but at least you weren’t a massive, insufferable arsehole about it.
To get your final spontaneity ability score, you have to multiply base spontaneity by a factor of
1
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1 + 1000 * k
where k is the number of kids you have.
I think you have to also account for the kids’ ages. An infant is different than a toddler, teen, or adult child.
I’m having a really hard time refuting this equation. It appears to work out even for negative and non-integer values of k
I’d say it’s more linked to how many dependents you have, rather than money in the bank.
Someone with no kids, no wife spouse (edit), and no pets can be spontaneous without a second thought.
Someone who’s tied down, but wealthy, not so much.
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!
