Show HN: Burnrate $1M a month, backwards through time

Category: other

Tags: visualization, wealth-inequality, interactive

Score: 3.3/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 3, Documentation: 3, Utility: 3)

Burnrate is an interactive visualization that shows how spending $1 million per month backwards through time depletes wealth, illustrating the scale of large fortunes like Elon Musk's. The project uses a scrolling mechanic to simulate spending over thousands of years, offering a playful but thought-provoking perspective on wealth. It's a simple, single-purpose tool with minimal documentation.

Target audience: general public

Repository: https://indiepixel.de/burnrate/

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