Billionaire Spending Simulator
Start with $100 billion and try to spend it all. Click to buy everything from coffee to NFL teams. See how impossibly hard it is to go broke when you are this rich.
About This Tool
One hundred billion dollars is an incomprehensible amount of money. Your brain literally cannot process it. This simulator makes the abstraction tangible by letting you buy things -- real things with real prices -- and watching the balance barely move. It is the most effective demonstration of extreme wealth inequality ever built as a web tool.
The shopping interface presents 25+ items ranging from a $5 cup of coffee to a $50 billion country GDP equivalent. You click to buy. Each purchase deducts from your running balance. The items include everyday purchases (coffee, movie tickets, shoes, iPhones), aspirational buys (Tesla Model S, college tuition, a house), luxury items (mansions, private jets, superyachts), and the truly absurd (NFL teams, airlines, small countries).
The psychological experience is the point. When you buy a $5 coffee and the balance shows $99,999,999,995, the number barely changes. When you buy a $50,000 car, it still barely changes. You have to buy mansions and private jets before the number starts to feel different -- and even then, you have barely made a dent. It takes buying multiple NFL teams and airlines to significantly reduce the balance.
The running receipt tracks every purchase. A context message at the bottom puts your remaining balance in perspective. If you somehow manage to spend $90 billion (hard to do without the country GDP button), the tool reminds you that you still have enough to buy an entire professional sports league.
This tool was inspired by similar web experiments and designed to go viral. It is genuinely fun, surprisingly educational, and shareable. The "time to spend it all" calculator assumes buying one item per second and tells you how long it would take at your current purchase rate. Share your results and challenge friends to go broke faster.
How to Use
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Start with your fortune
The default starting amount is $100 billion. You can edit this to any amount you want.
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Go shopping
Click any item to buy it. Each click deducts the price from your balance. Buy as many as you want.
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Try to go broke
Watch your receipt grow and your balance (barely) shrink. See the context message to understand how much you still have.
Where Does This Data Come From?
Item prices are based on approximate real-world market values as of early 2025. Coffee ($5) is a Starbucks average. iPhone ($1,299) is the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Tesla Model S ($89,990) is the base MSRP. Private jet ($70M) is a Gulfstream G700 range. NFL team ($4B) is based on recent franchise sales. Superyacht ($150M) reflects mid-range new builds. "Country GDP" ($50B) is illustrative, roughly matching countries like Croatia or Lithuania. All prices are approximations for entertainment purposes and do not represent exact current market values.