An Informative Graph
Jan. 12th, 2023 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickSome person on reddit asked about the price of a sound, safe, FUN hunter for an adult lady rider who wanted to do the 3'6" hunters. Person was a bit "She says 30K but that seems like an insane amount of money FOR A HORSE" and so... I drew a graph.
Horses is like boats, really, There is no limit to the amount of money you can spend on horses or on boats. HOWEVER both of these things kinda have a graphable set of curves that explain how people INTERACT with horses and boats... for MOST people, horses and boats work like this:
I'm pretty sure all ya'll can read graphs, even shitty ones drawn by hand in an LOL program. However, examine the PURPLE BOX. That's where your best payoff area is. The more-money you spend translates almost fucking immediately into MORE FUN. The purple box is a pretty good place.
The black circled area is where "More money" stops translating into reasonably-equivalent amounts of MORE FUN. You still get SOME more fun if you spend more money but your... returns decline and in short order, you're spending A LOT more money to get a little more fun.
The ugly green arrow shows where MORE MONEY stops translating into MORE FUN. At this level of investment, the fun starts to decline because you are spending A FORTUNE on horses and you're not having MOAR FUN and you're still not winning at the Olympics (or whatever) and jesus fuck, how much money do you have to spend on this fucking shit and WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING? You should probably stop spending money if you hit the ugly green arrow point. Unless you're stupid or bad at understanding happiness or something, in which case, go spend all your money and be less-happy than if you didn't. It's your life, you do you.
Note that NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY YOU SPEND, you will never have 100% fun. That's not A THING. You just can't have 100% fun because life does not work that way. Also, for MOST PEOPLE, other things influence general life satisfaction BESIDES how stuff is going in their horse lyfe.
Horses is like boats, really, There is no limit to the amount of money you can spend on horses or on boats. HOWEVER both of these things kinda have a graphable set of curves that explain how people INTERACT with horses and boats... for MOST people, horses and boats work like this:
I'm pretty sure all ya'll can read graphs, even shitty ones drawn by hand in an LOL program. However, examine the PURPLE BOX. That's where your best payoff area is. The more-money you spend translates almost fucking immediately into MORE FUN. The purple box is a pretty good place.
The black circled area is where "More money" stops translating into reasonably-equivalent amounts of MORE FUN. You still get SOME more fun if you spend more money but your... returns decline and in short order, you're spending A LOT more money to get a little more fun.
The ugly green arrow shows where MORE MONEY stops translating into MORE FUN. At this level of investment, the fun starts to decline because you are spending A FORTUNE on horses and you're not having MOAR FUN and you're still not winning at the Olympics (or whatever) and jesus fuck, how much money do you have to spend on this fucking shit and WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING? You should probably stop spending money if you hit the ugly green arrow point. Unless you're stupid or bad at understanding happiness or something, in which case, go spend all your money and be less-happy than if you didn't. It's your life, you do you.
Note that NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY YOU SPEND, you will never have 100% fun. That's not A THING. You just can't have 100% fun because life does not work that way. Also, for MOST PEOPLE, other things influence general life satisfaction BESIDES how stuff is going in their horse lyfe.
