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Life Simulator

10 years of money choices

Rationality
100%
Budget
$500/500
Life sim

Ten years. One clock. Every trap.

You start at 18 with $750. Every year throws a money decision at you, and if you freeze, the easy choice wins by default.

The 10-Minute Life Run

Ten years of money choices, live

You're 18 with $750. Each year a decision pops up with a trap baked in. If you freeze, the easy default picks for you.

After the run

Why each year was a setup

Hyperbolic Discounting

Now-you keeps robbing future-you.

You want stuff now and barely care about later. Future-you feels like a stranger.

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Throwing more money at something just because you already did.

You keep paying/playing because of what you ALREADY spent, even when quitting is obviously the smarter move. The past money is gone either way.

Loss Aversion

Losing $20 ruins your week. Finding $20 is just "neat."

Losing something feels about twice as bad as gaining the same thing feels good. So you fight harder to keep stuff than to get it.