A $100 Race Illustrates Unequal Starting Points

HN commenters link it as a quick, memorable illustration of unequal starting positions and generational wealth in threads on personal finance and economic precarity.

A short animated explainer that stages a $100 footrace in which contestants start at different distances from the line, depending on the advantages or disadvantages they inherited. It uses the race as a metaphor for how unequal starting points shape outcomes, citing US census income and poverty figures.