1 Thunomètre

We are not equal. Let’s try to be equitable.

Thunometers calculate a score that helps you situate yourself financially in relation to others. The criteria and their weighting vary between versions, sometimes with non-financial metrics to complete the picture.

When should you use a thunometer?

Educational uses:

  • Question your own financial situation
  • Recalibrate your financial and class narrative
  • Talk about money with people close to you
  • Question how wealth gaps affect our relationships

Practical uses:

  • Guide pay-what-you-can contributions
  • Provide a basis for distribution to validate or discuss

How do you use a thunometer?

  1. Calculate your score
  2. Place it on a chart
  3. Let the others do the same
  4. Look at the result
  5. Discuss it if you wish
  6. Estimate your share of the costs from the group’s scores, if that feels meaningful to you
  7. Or explore alternatives to thunometers

Points to keep in mind

A score simplifies complex realities.
It comes from situated, debatable scales.

Take care not to:

  • reduce people to numbers
  • disregard people’s feelings
  • impose amounts as indisputable
  • force anyone to disclose sensitive information
  • reproduce what you are trying to fight