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To get your final spontaneity ability score, you have to multiply base spontaneity by a factor of

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1 + 1000 * k  

where k is the number of kids you have.

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Ah yeah, as a DINK, this is a great formula

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I’m having a really hard time refuting this equation. It appears to work out even for negative and non-integer values of k

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Okay but how would one have negative amount of kids??

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Murder. It’s how many kids you’ve murdered. Therefore you will be in prison and have negative spontaneity.

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Kill someone else’s kid.

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What if i have -0.001 kids?

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Chop off the end of some kids finger.

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I think you have to also account for the kids’ ages. An infant is different than a toddler, teen, or adult child.

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I have left this aspect as an exercise to the reader.

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I’d say it plateaus eventually. You do need .Oney to do a lot of stuff, but once you have enough money, depression will keep you from being spontaneous anyways.

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I disagree with your conclusion that either money makes you depressed or everyone is always depressed.

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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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Plot twist, the country of Brazil is using Wells Fargo

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$250,000 is the FDIC limit for insurance.

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Aah, so that’s what’s holding back my spontaneous adventures. I need to upgrade to a bigger account. My 35 cents need some room to breathe.

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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.

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Can you? If you spontaneously Take a walk from 9-5 your fired.

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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

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It’s annoying when people get pedantic about spelling on the internet, but at least you weren’t a massive, insufferable arsehole about it.

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You’re

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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.

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I bet you get paid more than minimum wage to…

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My bank account is still empty either way.

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Most financially secure people still work full time. I suppose that in theory, they’re able to quit their jobs without suffering immediate, catastrophic consequences but if they actually did that sort of thing, they wouldn’t be financially secure for long.

(In my experience, many financially secure people actually work much more than full time. I think they would be better off if they didn’t because at some point time becomes more valuable than money, but they have the sort of personality that compels them to. This is often related to starting out without financial security.)

The very rich can do crazy stuff without consequences but they’re such a small part of the population that I don’t think comparing oneself to them is useful.

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Getting fired doesn’t make it any less spontaneous.

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Yea, feels like an excuse for lack of spontinaity. Not judging OP, could be depression or any such thing, but these are two independent variables.

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You’re right. Being rich might open up more types of spontaneity, but this just sounds like an excuse to not do anything.

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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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