lowering nominal rate of return

lowering nominal rate of return on regular assets

Without changing anything else, when I lower the nominal rate of return on my regular assets (say from 6% to 4%), my smoothed standard living for adult (and thus discretionary spending) goes up! And the more I lower the nominal rate, the higher it goes up.
That seems very odd. Can you explain? thank you. Charlie

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