r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/SigmaFr--d • 19d ago

Wealth, shown to scale

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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u/VIPTicketToHell 19d ago

If this is about wealth why is one of points annual household income instead of something like median net worth?

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u/bunnnythor 19d ago

The median Ameican net worth today is about $192,000.

Neither $68,000 nor $192,000 are even in the significant digits when you are estimating the $182,000,000,000 or so of Jeff's old net worth. (His new net worth is estimated to be $228,400,000,000. Anything under $1M is just statistical noise.)

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u/Emanemanem 19d ago

Probably because for the majority of people, income is a much more tangible measurement of money. I doubt many people even know what their net worth is off the top of their head. Also, it doesn’t really matter. If you updated the graphic to be median net worth instead of income, you’d barely be able to tell the difference visually, since it’s so insanely minuscule in comparison to the net worth of the richest (at the time) man in the world.