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2024-10-09 15:39:29

Ken Shirriff on Nostr: I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 ...

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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