RealWorth · Money and Inflation, Visualized

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RealWorth turns abstract money into something you can see.The core is a historical purchasing power calculator covering sixcountries from 1750 to 2026, built on official CPI data. Instead ofreturning a single adjusted number, it shows what an amount actuallybought: hours of work, loaves of bread, months of rent.Around it sits a growing set of interactive visualizations:- Anatomy of a $100 bill — a WebGL model of a banknote that can be pulled apart layer by layer, viewed under UV light, cut in cross-section, and folded.- How Big Is a Billion Dollars — a drivable road paved with $100 bills, comparing amounts by area, weight, and counting time.- Global Money Flow — a live map of worldwide remittances, updated monthly from World Bank data.- The Story of Money — 5,000 years of money in nine scenes.- Salary Border Map — wage differences across European borders.Everything is built solo, runs without accounts or paywalls, andevery figure traces back to a named public source.