@kenshirriff this proves that is more worth taxing the poor

@kenshirriff *trying to find myself in this chart*

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So there's about 2500 people holding the world hostage

@kenshirriff Other than the Kochs and the Waltons everyone whose name is on your list grew up middle or upper middle class, not top 1%. Four of the fourteen are US immigrants. Maybe the America IS the land of opportunity? Or maybe wealth is just luck, like if 350 million go to the casino 14 will have large winnings.

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Is that why TFG thinks he's "one of the working people, fighting the elites"? 😅

@kenshirriff I suppose the wealth axis could be logarithmic, so it's the same distance between 100k, 1m, 10m, 100m, 1b, 10b, 100b. There would still be a big clump at the low end because a lot of people have zero or negative net worth.

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Where's Putin?!
He's the Richest...

@kenshirriff are there still 2 Koch’s?

@kenshirriff @c_9 “severely skewed”does not do this justice

@kenshirriff quite a histogram. It appears that wealth is far from normally distributed.

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@kenshirriff Got to feel for those poor 1500 people over 500m but under 1b. The pressure on them to join the elite is intense.

@kenshirriff Could we also have a graph where the x-axis is log(wealth)?

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An illustrated guide as to why billionaires don’t think like you, act like you, have literally anything in common with any of us.

This much wealth (and power) in so few hands is inherently corrosive to individuals and society.

#TaxTheRich

@kenshirriff We need a log-log of that

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No man should be able to achieve this amount of money. It is a perversion.

@kenshirriff Very interesting graph that of course raises more questions. :) I am glad you didn’t use a logarithmic scale. Do you have the data to easily create a similar graph zooming in on the 0-500 million pixel to the full width of the graph? Again, not logarithmic?

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They can't help it. Money makes money.
Bill Gates, philanthropist, had a net worth of 53b when he stopped working for Microsoft in 2008 and somehow acquired another 70b, while trying very hard to donate his money to charity. Poor guy.

@kenshirriff the amount of money some people have falls into a category I call "stupid rich”, in that it is so much money it is conceivably impossible to comprehend and I feel very stupid thinking of a number that large.

@kenshirriff Eat the Rich!

@kenshirriff 500 million is just comfortably poor for the ultra wealthy.

@kenshirriff While I am a person who values my privacy, I would confirm that my net assets are between $0 and $499,999,999.99. Probably also true for my friends, family, and co-workers. 😜

@kenshirriff Another classic visualization is Pen's Parade:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen%27s_parade

@kenshirriff ahh ’murrica, where there are no poor people - only temporarily embarrassed (m|b)illionaires. 😂

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It's obscene.

@kenshirriff the L-curve.

@kenshirriff So, what you’re telling me, is that these are the 2,310 people who run the US government.

@kenshirriff Thank you for this. This is what I mean when I try to tell people that the uber-rich are truly in a world of their own.

@kenshirriff as a professional histogram looker, this is a bad histogram to have

@kenshirriff eat the rich? Please?

@kenshirriff I can't imagine what being worth $1m would be like, heck, I can't imagine what being worth $100k would be like - that's so far beyond my reach.

@kenshirriff I often explain that the problem is not the 10% rich not even the 1%. The 0.1% if not the 0.01%.

In the US millionaires are part of the 99%.

@kenshirriff you forgot to add CuriousMarc‘s wealth after selling all his Lab Equipment 😂

@kenshirriff apologies if this has already come up, but you might appreciate this (slightly older) visualization https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3

@kenshirriff An eye-opening chart. (One note: Buffett should have two t's.)

@kenshirriff I cannot say how absurd this is. There are a bit more than 800 people who are actually represented in this diagram: The rest is “too poor” to be represented — even if they own (almost) a billion Dollars.

If you own less than a billion, we cannot care for you... — I am sure this diagram shows the world view of people like Musk or Bezos.

@kenshirriff US Oligarchy