I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 list that just came out.
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I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 list that just came out. Almost the entire US population is in the red line at the left, one pixel wide. To fit Elon Musk on the graph, each pixel is $500 million wide. In other words, from the perspective of the very rich, $0 and $500 million look the same.
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@kenshirriff To every EU-citizen reading this: please sign this petition to #TaxTheRich NOW. Signature collection ends today and it will fail, but every signature adds weight.
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@kenshirriff What happens if you plot the x axis logarithmically?
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Stuart McHattie 👨🏼💻replied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@riley @kenshirriff two things:
1. You find out we don’t have that much data on the distribution of the sub-$500M people so the plot can’t be accurate.
2. It removes the overall shock that Musk is so insanely rich.
With his money, he could do great things and make real change in things like health and welfare. But instead he wants more.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Stuart McHattie 👨🏼💻 last edited by
@sdjmchattie Didn't he calculate that he could end the world hunger with pocket change a couple of years ago?
But for some reason, he values the opinions of a few million poopie-shirt sneerleaders more highly than the gratitude of a few billion no-longer-hungry people.
