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About

A small interactive piece, made for talks and presentations. It fits an exponential curve through recent Forbes net-worth estimates for Lidl founder Dieter Schwarz and then runs a live counter showing how much that fortune has grown since you opened the page. There is a pause/“speech time” mode for use during a talk, a pop-out window, and an editable version where you can drop in your own figures.

It is meant as an illustration, not a measurement: real fortunes do not grow at a perfectly constant rate, and unrealised gains like these are largely untaxed in Germany. That is rather the point.