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Human Capital ROI: Education Investment Simulator

Interactive 3D simulator of the economics of education: compare a lifetime earnings path with and without extra years of schooling, watch discounted cumulative earnings race year by year, and see the break-even age and internal rate of return of the investment.

Economics & Social Systems3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted

The economics of education treats schooling as an investment: you pay tuition and forgo income now in exchange for higher wages later. This simulator renders two 40-year earning paths as growing 3D bar towers — one for going straight to work, one for studying a few extra years first — and discounts every year's cash flow back to present value exactly as a real cost-benefit analysis would. A glowing marker shows the break-even career year where the education path overtakes the work-now path, and live readouts compute the investment's net present value and internal rate of return as you adjust tuition, the wage premium, extra years of schooling, and the discount rate.

⚙ Under the hood

Compare two 40-year earnings paths — working straight away versus studying a few extra years first — as growing 3D bar towers, and watch the discounted break-even year and internal rate of return update live.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install