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What the country is talking about: a sharp contraction.
Next Forty is a startup investing game and life simulator you play one card at a time. You are 20 with $10,000 to your name. Every year new company files land on the table; you invest in one and pass on the next. At forty, your net worth is the sum of the calls you made.
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The cards always come in this order. You decide from what you know, the cash you have and this year’s inflation.
What the country is talking about: a sharp contraction.
The same cargo crosses three borders, and its documents change names every time.
A deposit’s rate locks the day it opens and never changes again.
The year report opens with a seal: where it came from, what you hold now.
Twenty years split into four five-year acts. Each act changes the city, ages your portrait, and gives the companies you hold a place on the map.

Everything was cheap, and everything was possible.

A seat at the table got expensive.

The biggest bets get made in these years.

You reap now what you planted years ago.
The game says every figure twice: in today’s dollars and in year-1 dollars. Inflation changes every year and waits for no one.
The figures here come from a real run: the final year of a player who kept cash in the till and made a few small investments a year, turning forty.
A fortune that looks tripled never got back to half of where it started in purchasing power.
