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How Old Are These Keys?

One of the questions I often come back to is this: how much of our collective wealth is inherited by our generations versus created by our generations?

I realized that the keys on the keyboard in front of me might make a good dataset to attack that problem. So I built a small little experiment to explore the history of the keys on my keyboard.

https://breckyunits.com/files/keyboard

Full write up here:

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