Wealth Shown to Scale
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Wealth Shown to Scale
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#2Missing: median US Black household wealth, $24,100; median US Hispanic household wealth, $36,100. Numbers as of 2019.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/disp...
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#3I am most grateful for my Logitech MX Master 2 mouse scroll wheel and a shift key. Hold shift, give the scroll wheel enough momentum to undo the parking brake, and let physics do the rest.
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#4Of note: The yearly GDP of america is 21 trillion.
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#5Matt if you're here, can you add an atom/rss feed?
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#6I find these scrolling websites unergonomic and not at all that good at getting the point across (other than "yeah, it's a lot").
Also, with the text-length budget of that site I think it's a shame it doesn't explain what wealth, profit, liquidity and cash-on-hand is.
Better visualisations imo:
- Tom Scott: A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg
- How rich are Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in Minecraft terms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvttV8EIoGA
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#7Nice graphic, but also a bit misleading.
Bezos would never be able to immediately realise that amount of assets in to useful cash. So saying no human deserves this amount of wealth is kind of already fulfilled? He may have 2 or 3 billion as cash maybe.
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#8A society that is extreme in one category is likely to be extreme in other categories as well.
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#9Nice graphic, but also a bit misleading. Bezos would never be able to immediately realise that amount of assets in to useful cash. So saying no human deserves this amount of wealth is kind of already fulfilled? He may have 2 or 3 billion as cash maybe.
The author responds to this at about $14.8 billion into the "400 richest Americans" section, see [0], which they link to.
0: https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/THE...
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#10Nice graphic, but also a bit misleading. Bezos would never be able to immediately realise that amount of assets in to useful cash. So saying no human deserves this amount of wealth is kind of already fulfilled? He may have 2 or 3 billion as cash maybe.
There are many, many ways that wealth is realized without spending it. Once you get past a few hundred million you literally cannot spend the money as fast as it comes in.
These billionaires aren't amassing wealth to spend it on things, they're gathering it for power, leverage, status, prestige, legacy reasons etc, and using it to influence and control the world to further their own agenda.