$1/minute sleeping and $0.06/step taken.

This gives you 8x60x$1 = $480/night or 10000x$0.06= $600 a day for the recommended 10k steps a day.

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago*

Absolutely steps.

$600 x 365 is $219k a year. I'd quit my job and become a full-time walker/hiker.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Walking. I would immediately make plans to walk the Appalachian trail and the PCT. You would get paid around ~300,000 dollars to walk the Appalachian trail and ~480,000 dollars to walk the PCT. 2 hours a day on a treadmill at 3mph would garner you ~800 dollars a day. Fit and rich sounds like a great plan.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’d choose to walk. I can make even more running so there is room for growth. While I can only sleep a max of (if you sleep the whole day) $1440 a day.

    Playing a sport for fun will earn you a lot of money all while simply exercising.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But an injury or smth. Plus you can't necessarily walk your entire life, or at the same rate anyways. Have to with sleep

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  • You could also become an Insomniac. Idk, I think old people are told to keep moving for as long as possible. I’d hope one would have saved for rainy day funds and retirement.

    I think this is a question that similar to capitalism or socialism. Work an avg amount or work for what you get.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Sleep. $500 a day is quite a pretty penny

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Sleep! Because I have a disability that limits my ability to walk. And that disability makes me so damn tired that I sleep a lot

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Steps for sure. Just walked 20k steps at work, that’s $1200 vs the 6 hrs I slept which would only be $360.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    I don’t take a lot of steps. Even when I’m walking for a day, people with me get literally thousands more steps recorded. So absolutely sleep. I need about 510 min sleep a night. It would pay more than my current job, that’s for sure!

    I also prefer to do things other than walking/running for exercise, and I don’t have the recovery capacity or energy to do heavy squats, high intensity cardio, and also get in 8500 steps a day. When I go to the office, I’m lucky to break 3000 steps!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Steps. I walk fuckin everywhere. Walked 30K steps last Saturday, 10K steps a day most days. I'd have earned minimum $600 a day just for my daily commute for the last six months.

    I haven't slept eight hours in god knows how many years.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Steps. Give me an extra incentive to practice healthy habits.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    9hrs of sleep nets me 540 => 197,100/yr without taking any of my free time to exist which leaves more time awake to be making money

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    After a lot of back-and-forth with myself: sleeping. There have been times I've been injured or sick or overworked and didn't do much walking, but I need to sleep every day. Plus it'll be nice to have some guaranteed income when I'm old and bedridden.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    As long as I don't have to sleep MORE and get paid for the sleep I'm required to do to live, definitely sleep, no brainer. The thing I hate most about sleep is that I'm not doing anything while I sleep.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sleep for me, I struggle to get in 1000 steps a day.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Over the past year, I averaged 10,896 steps a day. To get paid the same in sleep, I would have to sleep 10.896 hours a day. There's no way that I could enjoy life and sleep for almost half of it. Steps is the easy choice.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Thats more than 100k to sleep. Yeah steps make more but sleep is a definate and you could do whatever you want. I mean the steps could be done under 2 hours and most days you would likely get them in doing whatever but with sleeping when you are sick your pay would go up. Yeah I take sleep.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I used to get paid £0.06 per tree planted.

    I'd definitely take the steps payment as I still have an active job.

    Last job I was walking 20k+ steps a day

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Steps - sleep can be hit-or-miss for me but steps are something I can actively increase, plus it's healthy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Sleep. My health problems can confine me to bed for some time with little walking.

    With all that money maybe I can find out why!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Steps. I pace.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Steps. I'd be rich and fit. I'm not either right now, but >$600/day is a good motivator. Does running count?

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    Then I'd be a millionaire in a couple years. I don't like running, but I'm petty sure that would change if someone paid me around $350-400/hr. 40 hours of that per week (obviously working up to it) would be $700-800k/yr. Push yourself to do 80 hours a week and youd be there in less than a year.

    Edit: and I'd be in great shape. Getting paid to sleep would just make me lazy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Sleep, I know I could make much more with the steps but, why?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Sleep, I'm always gonna sleep, my capacity to walk is limited. Then again I've got insomnia so...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's mid-afternoon and I'm already at 8,672 steps, just from housework and a half-hour walk. I don't think you have to be an extraordinarily active person to reach 10k steps in a day. Barring disability it's a very achievable goal.

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