geoffreypoirier / bangbuck

Try building a house with a continuously adjusting measuring stick.

!$ - BangBuck

Why?

3 a: any of various basic monetary units (as in the U.S. and Canada)

definition of a dollar via Mirriam-Webster

So, this dollar is a unit of measurement, eh?

Well, I ain't never tried to neither engineer nor construct anything in my life with an impermanent unit of measurement!

Imagine building a house or conducting science when the length of a centimeter fluctuates daily based on the emotional state of panicky people.

        NEWS ACTOR
...and today the weight of a kilogram
backed off from it's high of 1.180 to
1.167 when reports of unrest in the...

So why BangBuck?

Because we gain a better perspective of currency, value, inflation and more by locking all dollars you see in your browser to a particular spacetime, like The Universal BangBuck of New York, Jan 1 2000 or Bainbridge Island, 2017.

Every dollar you see will adjust to your favorite perspective.

NOTE: Amero-centric and will change any "$".

Settings

• Enter your preferred year and city into the form.
• Refresh the page to see the effect.

Dollar Value 1800-2010

Adjusted Dollars

• Adjusting in time.
• Adjusting in space.

TODO

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