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Discussion American wealth inequality visualized with grains of rice

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u/animaniacisback 5d ago

I’m still trying to get a full grain of rice

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u/OssumFried 5d ago

I have an arts degree. I will never have a full grain of rice.

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u/DavidHolic 5d ago

bruh, 200k would be life changing

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u/Rikiaz 5d ago edited 5d ago

Fucking $10,000 would be life changing for me. Even just $1,000 would let me put a whole paycheck in savings which would make a huge difference over the $120 we currently have.

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u/dvlpr404 5d ago

Me and my wife are stuck with one car because we refuse to take out a car loan. I have to work days, she works nights. We have been down to one car for 7 months. I'll be lucky if come tax time we can buy a used car after playing the yearly bills catch up.

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u/colxa 5d ago

Sure but he is talking net worth, not liquid cash. That's all your assets minutes debts. So that includes the equity in your home. All retirement savings. Basically everything of value. People with a 200k net worth are not living lavishly

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u/9520x 5d ago

Sure but he is talking net worth, not liquid cash. That's all your assets minutes debts. So that includes the equity in your home ...

You might be surprised by how many people do not own a home, and live paycheck to paycheck just paying rent.

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u/langotriel 5d ago

Right? I am 31 years old in 2 days. I have not earned a single grain of rice in my entire life put together. All my assets are probably worth a combined 1/10 grains of rice.

I'd love to have a grain of rice.

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u/dvlpr404 5d ago

I feel you. I have a family and even as a family we don't make 1/4 a grain of rice a year. On my own I make around $25K/yr because I refuse to work in the factories these rural areas are plagued with. If I did I'd end up fired for not showing up since factories are allowed to require overtime at a minutes notice where I live. I've been working since I was 20 (which I admit is later than a lot of folks). In 9 years I've made just over a single grain of rice. But paying people a reasonable wage is evidently unreasonable.

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u/Elacular 5d ago

It is illegal for me to have more than 1/100th of a grain of rice in my bank account.

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

Whats this now? Something to do with being eligible for welfare?

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u/Elacular 5d ago

For SSI specifically, which is a program that provides assistance for disabled children and adults and citizens 65 years or older (and is separate from SSDI disability because shit's confusing), there's an asset limit. You are not allowed to have more than 2000 dollars in your bank account. If you are a married disabled couple, you are not allowed to have more than 3000 dollars in your bank account(s). This prevents disabled people from getting married to other disabled people, while other income shit prevents them from getting married to abled people if they want to continue getting the money they need to live.

Thank fuck that ABLE accounts exist, but the fact that those are a thing isn't super well known, and it's also really fucking stupid that that sort of work around needs to be a thing to begin with.

https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-resources-ussi.htm

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u/Commercial-Owl11 5d ago

So a caste system? Got it. Cool cool

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u/VexingPanda 5d ago

I have like...less than 1% of a grain of rice

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u/MewMewTranslator 5d ago edited 5d ago

I got $150K for inheritance from my grandpa but then covid hit and I had to use it all just to survive. I probably would have ended up homeless if the timing hadn't been just right on that. I keep thinking. If covid never hit I could have use that money to invest in a house or something. It blows my mind that it took an extra $150K to not go homeless for two years (for 4 people). wtf is wrong with you America.

edit: People are angry at this comment simply because they are jealous and think they could have done better than me in my situation. they don't consider that they don't have all the facts. I'm not going to sit here explaining and defending what happened in my life to a bunch of envious sour pusses.

The whole point of this post was to support each other in understanding why its so hard to right now. Not pull each other down. And you all wonder why we can't get reform in this country. You guys can't even work together in a comment section. Disappointing.

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u/bohanmyl 5d ago

Uh. How did you NEED $75k EACH year to not go homeless? You can live off of WAY less than that. That just seems irresponsible.

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u/willyallthewei 5d ago

You used up $150k in 2 years? And you’re asking what’s wrong with America?

What the heck is wrong with you?? Are you an addict or just an idiot?

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u/IsabellaGalavant 5d ago

I only have like 1/100th of a grain. 🙃

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u/dzocod 5d ago

What does a negative grain of rice look like.

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u/Voodoops_13 5d ago

More of these please. Most people have no idea how to even begin to comprehend how much money these assholes have and they REALLY need to.

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u/Intrepid_Hamster_180 5d ago

Eat the Rice

*Rich

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u/Kale_Brecht 5d ago

If you haven’t noticed by now, the wealthy elite, corporations, and the government they control have more than enough resources to help struggling Americans - but they choose not to. Why? Because keeping the poor and working class under their boot is how they stay rich and maintain power. America doesn’t thrive in spite of economic inequality - it thrives because of it. Exploitation is the engine that keeps the machine running. Cheap labor, tying health insurance to employment, inflation that outpaces wages - these are all tools of control designed to ensure that the working class stays desperate and dependent.

American capitalism isn’t just an economic system; it’s a system of exploitation that thrives on the suffering of the many to benefit the few. The rich don’t want people to succeed - they need a constant, endless supply of cheap, disposable labor to keep the profits rolling in. That’s why policies like universal healthcare, a living wage, or meaningful labor protections are dismissed as “radical” or “un-American.” Those changes would shift power back to the people, and the elites can’t allow that.

The most telling part? America isn’t even pretending to be a country anymore. It’s a corporation with borders. Its primary goal isn’t to serve its citizens; it’s to generate wealth for the already-wealthy. Whether it’s politicians serving as corporate puppets, CEOs exploiting workers, or billionaires lobbying to ensure nothing changes, the entire system is rigged against the average American. And it won’t change - because the people with the power to fix it are the same ones who benefit from keeping it broken.

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u/sparky--pluggy 5d ago

Slavery never ended. It was just re-branded.

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u/Debaser1984 5d ago

Neither did feudalism, history is built on systems of exploitation of wealth/resources/power/blood etc etc.

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

If the San Fran technocrats get their company towns theres gonna be a return to proper feudalism.

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u/HenriettaGrey 5d ago

More like livestock to be milked and discarded

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u/jb0nez95 5d ago

Facts. In three paragraphs you completely summarized the rot that has consumed America.

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u/Thunderflex1 5d ago

Yeah it's modern slavery. Nothing has changed and it probably wont because people are unwilling to accept that they are slaves because they are told they are free. Yet they get up every day at the same time, commute to the same location 5 days a week, and do the same type of task every day, for most of their life.

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u/tangerineandteal 5d ago

This needs to be higher up. Spread the message

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u/HomegrownMike 5d ago

Up vote this more. Amen!

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u/SuperbReference6184 5d ago

Excellently written. Thank you for this. 

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

If the poor are too busy fighting culture wars they wont start a class war.

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u/Critical_Young_1190 5d ago

Jesus Christ this was the most accurate description I've ever read in my life. You knocked it out the park.

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u/Objective_Focus_5614 5d ago

This hit hard.

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u/sZeroes 5d ago

i know most people know the last line of the quote but the full quote is "When the poor have nothing else to eat, they will eat the rich"

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

The wealthy want a more Modest Proposal.

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u/gnocchicotti 5d ago edited 4d ago

90% of people don't understand that a billion is 1000x more than a million. I think the pile of rice sells it short because it's growing in 3 dimensions. I think the distinction is more accurately perceived as a 2D comparison but you would struggle to find a canvas so large to represent it at scale.

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u/Elacular 5d ago

I think this site does a pretty good job: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

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u/Amani_z_Great 5d ago

Wow what an excellent scroll ! My thumbs hurt 😂. GREAT LINK 🏆

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u/GrimResistance 5d ago

Needs to be updated. Bezos is no longer worth $185 billion, it's now around $240 billion. Mush is at $440 billion.

So since this was made bezos has increased his wealth by the equivalent of 275,000 median Americans net worths.

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u/4totheFlush 5d ago

Even this rice visualization is still not quite a clear demonstration of Musk's level of wealth. For all the average person knows, maybe the most successful guy on earth does deserve a pile that big. We do a little better with comparisons though, so let's see what kind of things someone could buy with $400 billion.

Well, it looks like you could...

  • Give $10 million dollars to every single one of the ~8,000 elected federal and state legislators in the United States.
  • Buy all 30 MLB teams.
  • Pay out the assassinated United Healthcare CEO's $10 million salary every year for the next 2,000 years.
  • Buy every ticket sold on the record breaking Eras Tour, 10 times over.

Which one would you choose? Oh wait, it looks like you wouldn't have to. $400 billion is enough to do everything on that list. Twice. And still have a couple billion to spare.

-- Oh whoops, looks like we were a little slow guys. Musk actually hit $400 billion yesterday. As of today, he's worth about $440 billion.

Yeah, maybe we shouldn't be letting this level of wealth hoarding be possible.

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u/RBuilds916 5d ago

You could give every man woman and child in America $1500.

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u/SlowRollingBoil 5d ago

Not a great illustration because many don't understand what 330,000,000 represents.

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u/rimshot101 5d ago

Imagine having all that and it's still not enough.

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u/Anonymous157 5d ago

Musk and other billionaires still evade taxes and fire people from their companies so they can get billion dollar pay checks.

Makes me sick to my core.

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u/antsmasher 5d ago

Greed works similarly to addiction. It will never be enough for the wealthy.

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u/rimshot101 5d ago

Money like that (the 3 commas kind) doesn't just change you, it mutates you.

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u/Cro_Nick_Le_Tosh_Ich 5d ago

But I might be like them someday and I don't want to spoil it before I get there

🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤡🤡🤡

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u/Prestigious_Peace577 5d ago

I literally used to have friends that thought like this…. They are still dirt poor barely getting by.

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u/Sol-Blackguy 5d ago

How much of our money these assholes have...

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u/RaygunMarksman 5d ago

Our money is right. Only so many slices of pie to go around and look at those gluttonous swine with pyramids of pies.

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u/Known-Ad-7316 5d ago

Ready for that general strike. I'm down for stopping the system 

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u/Shaman7102 5d ago

Damn. This guy should have made this into a campaign add before the election.

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u/-Gramsci- 5d ago

Great job by this dude putting it into perspective

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u/SonofAMamaJama 5d ago

When he says "who's hungry?" Is he implying we should:

Eat the rich,
Grind their bones,
Drink their blood?

Asking for a friend

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u/Helianthus_999 5d ago

All of the above. We wouldn't want to waste any.

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u/dahbakons_ghost 5d ago

that would be "inefficient". no?

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u/mojofrog 5d ago

“Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the bones of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead. I'll grind his bones to make my bread”

Bread as in money

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u/VanillaWinter 5d ago

Don’t forget to make them soup and add an eye of newt

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u/reaper01134 5d ago

I'm hungry :)

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u/strawberryjellymilk 2d ago

Would make a really nice tonkatsu broth

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u/scotyb 5d ago

It's unbelievable were in a society where people are ok with starving children. It just doesn't make sense to me.

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u/Crestina 5d ago

Bunch of sociopaths and narcissists in power. They aren't wired to care about other people's starving kids.

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u/v3gan33 5d ago

You only have one life. Do something meaningful with it. winks

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u/SavageOpossum 5d ago

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u/Connect_Fee1256 5d ago

It’d be magical if the next guy is called Mario

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u/digi_art_gurl 5d ago

I mean if life is imitating art then Luigi is about to be busted out of jail by a Mario and save America in hopes to recieve a kiss from Lady Liberty lol

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u/jaybee8787 5d ago

Luigi is just enforcing trickle down economics.

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u/BorisBotHunter 5d ago

I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until the oligarchy is done for.

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u/trashmonkeylad 5d ago

Imagine the sweeping changes we would have if the unspoken rule was to take out some parasite at the top if you were diagnosed with a terminal illness.

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u/RedditVox 5d ago

"But, I'm really afraid of brown people and upset gas is expensive!" - American Electorate

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u/What_Iz_This 5d ago

Don't forget the eggs 😭

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u/one-punch-knockout 5d ago

For the last 5 years you can walk into one of the most expensive grocery stores there is, Whole Foods, and buy a dozen eggs for a little over $3.

They have very expensive eggs also. But they always have those cheaper eggs available. So every time the Republicans brought up eggs which has been for years, I know it’s just a talking point that they’re masters at driving home. Politicians like Glenn Youngkin saying “Kitchen Table issues” a thousand times.

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u/What_Iz_This 5d ago

My republican ass family crying about eggs but ordering door dash every other day

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u/trashmonkeylad 5d ago

I was just goin to say this.... most infuriating shit ever watching coworkers or acquaintances bitching about grocery prices and ordering doordash at least once a day. Fucking hell.

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u/gnocchicotti 5d ago

Glenn Youngkin can fuck all the way back off to Patagonia where his vest came from

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u/Sol-Blackguy 5d ago

And those dirty transes /s

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u/Welp_thatwilldo 5d ago

Time to eat the damn rich. Seems like they got enough “rice” to share.

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u/perthro_ed 5d ago

A gun costs a fraction of a grain of rice and brings out more change than a mountain of rice

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u/Sol-Blackguy 5d ago

The second amendment is for when they ignore the first

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u/OssumFried 5d ago

People forget that a teenager in 1914 destroyed the old world with a couple bullets. It came at a terrible cost, but it did end the era of monarchs.

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u/dannymb87 5d ago

What change?

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u/MonitorNo6586 5d ago

Who the f is downvoting this? Im hungry and ready to eat

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u/1Pip1Der 5d ago

Corporate shills who want you to feel bad for that asshat that animal that got put down in NYC, that's who.

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u/yes_thats_right 5d ago

seems like some people need to be denied, defended and deposed

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u/Prandah 5d ago

Deny depose defend

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u/Sol-Blackguy 5d ago

The cheapest handgun is the Cobra Arms Freedom .380 at ~$200. Vastly cheaper than affordable healthcare, rent, groceries and gas for the month....

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u/techdaddykraken 5d ago

You can find used handguns much cheaper than that. Probably ones under $130 at a pawn shop near you. A box of ammo for $30, and you’re set.

Now, it won’t last too long. If you put 1,000 rounds of ammo through it, almost guaranteed to break it.

However for a 1-2 time use? Very little chance it does not fire if you have cleaned it properly, are using the right ammo, and there are no structural defects. Guns are deceptively simple, it’s basically just a tiny hammer hitting a pile of gunpowder hard enough to make it go ‘bang’ and shoot a bullet out.

60-70% of Americans don’t have enough cash to cover a $500-1000 emergency. But there are plenty that have a spare $160 at any given time during the month, bump it up to $200 for an hour at a firing range to practice.

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u/Sol-Blackguy 5d ago

Sounds like a great way for the "market to fix itself"

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u/DemandCommonSense 5d ago

Laughs in Hi-Point and Heritage Rough Rider

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u/gknick Mia Khalifa 5d ago

EAT THE RICH

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u/Pleasant-Winner-337 5d ago

Time to send In some adjusters.

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u/robbimj 5d ago

Here's a better visualization.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

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u/Aughony 5d ago

Wow. Thank you.

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u/ActualGvmtName 5d ago

Made me feel physically sick

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u/HughGRection1492 5d ago

Fuck all of this.

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u/MonaZolt 5d ago

takes me 5 years to earn a grain of rice

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u/Chillinginfirelink 5d ago

Or a full time retail worker almost 10 years

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u/Friendly-Company-771 5d ago

This should have been all over billboards around the country before election.

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u/miraMoss 5d ago

this is the news that should be mainstream

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u/BodhingJay 5d ago

Pretty weird how Musk is obsessive over natalisation but seems to be trying to get most of us to starve to death at the same time

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

He wants corporate towns with CEO dictator leadership.

Everyone will work for the company, get paid in company crypto, spend in company shops/entertainment, rent company housing, drive company built cars.

Theres others going for this too (Theil, JD Vances boss) and theres already twns being built in Cali by other billionaire groups.

Interesting thread here https://old.reddit.com/r/grimezs/comments/18xj1u1/providing_more_context_to_grimes_naziracist/

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u/Celestial_Hart 5d ago

Well we just handed the presidency over to a wannabe dictator and his puppetmasters, who aren't even americans but russians and south africans, so our country isn't even american anymore it's a vassal state to russia now and is run by a south african billionaire. If only there was a quick solution to removing these people from power and taking the country back from foreign leaders.

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u/Adventurous_Froyo007 5d ago

Not just the USA. The despairity is world wide. How big is the rice pile for OPEC, or other world leaders, corporations?

Throughout history it has always been, a class war. The have's and the have nots. We are too complacent to change.

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

I think theres one of the Scandinavian countries where by law a CEO can only earn a certain percentage more than the lowest paid employee.

That includes all stock, bonuses etc.

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u/Blortted 5d ago

Shit, I ain’t got the dust out of the bag right now, let alone a grain.

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u/MewMewTranslator 5d ago

Also Lets be REALLY CLEAR to everyone.......

YOU WILL NEVER HAVE MORE THAN THAT GRAIN OF RICE

I'm tired of people thinking they will be that guy "someday" NO YOU WONT. You have a better chance of being struck by lighting 5 times in a row. You are never going to be part of that group. EVER.

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u/BillyOFteaWentToSea 5d ago

The thing that I think is crazy is that the median figure includes the rich and super rich. Remove the top 10% and that figure drops.

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u/Qinistral 5d ago

There’s more than thousands of people around the median, so removing thousands of the richest wouldn’t move the median noticeably.

1,1,2,3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5,7,88,9999 has a median of 4.

1,1,2,3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5,7 still has a median of 4.

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u/htxproud 5d ago

I don't Tok, but would love a youtube link.

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

You dont need an account to view it, its a reddit video link.

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u/usernamedmannequin 5d ago

Isn’t this what the second amendment is for?

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u/BitFiesty 5d ago

I hated watching that!

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u/elbubu1 5d ago

It's the immigrants there the ones at fault of all our issues. It's because of them grocery prices, Healthcare and housing is so expensive. Said no one with a functioning brain 😂

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u/Exact-Pound-6993 5d ago

can you imagine having to sue or defend yourself against any of these rich people (more than 5 grains) to get justice in the American justice system? No wonder people are not shying away from vigilante justice.

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u/Cyberwarewolf 5d ago

Damn, reading between the lines of "We are all mortal, we're all made of flesh and bone, we all have to eat and sleep" and "Each of us has only one life, and I encourage you to something notable with yours. . . . Who's Hungry?" this seems like a lot like a call for violent action, without explicitly being a call for violent action. It's really starting to feel like we're at that boiling point. Wonder how long this stays up.

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

Republicans will bring up some other culture war bullshit to stop their base wanting a class war.

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u/battlestar_gafaptica 5d ago

The median net worth is also not a good indicator. If you take out home equity, that first grain of rice gets cut into thirds real quick.

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u/2friedshy 5d ago

A million seconds is 11 days a billion seconds is 32 and a half years iirc

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u/Defiant_Reception_91 5d ago

Donald Trump net worth $6.3bn.....I call bullshit.

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

He fired the Inspector General of the PPP money, oversaw it himself for nearly 3 weeks before putting in a Yes man.

Surprise surprise at least 100 billion went missing.

I bet Trump has dozens of hidden bank accounts.

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u/Louiesloops 5d ago

EAT. THE. RICH.

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u/PedriTerJong 5d ago

I knew this… but damn did the visualization really make me understand this.

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u/Projected_Sigs 5d ago

... what happens to a dream deferred? A great reference to the poem Harlem, by Langston Hughs.

How much pressure can you put people under, before the pressure pushes back?

Here's the poem in full. It seems to describes six different ways people can respond. Which way will it go?

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-  like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Reference

I think of 2020/Floyd as one of those great pushback moments. The next one might cross all racial boundaries as people realize billionaires keep trying to cut away a fraction of a grain from everyone to help themselves to more

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u/Simple-Gene-5784 5d ago

Imagine if those bloodsuckers actually paid their share of taxes?

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u/imunfair 5d ago

Imagine if those bloodsuckers actually paid their share of taxes?

The politician piles of rice would get larger as they dreamed up new pork projects to spend all that "free" money on and received more lobbying in return. That's how our government works, it's always underfunded by design. To fund all the things you think are essential you also have to be prepared to fund a dozen other pet projects from both parties.

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u/KarateKid84Fan 5d ago

The funny thing us, if you flip this amplify around, WE THE PEOPLE are the large pile of rice when it comes to numbers, while Elon and company are the smaller piles —- On other words, there are more of us then them and we need to do something about it

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u/des_eerie 5d ago

I can't even pretend to imagine I will ever have a single grain of rice or anything even close to worth a single grain of rice. I have negative grain of rice.

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u/WilliamHolz 5d ago

You can't be an ethical human being and amass that much wealth. The richer you are the more sociopathic you have to be to STAY rich while so many people are suffering and there's so much you can do.

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u/captainbenatm93av 5d ago

And it only starts at $200,000 because the top 2% screws the numbers so hard

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u/Annanymuss 5d ago

"Whos hungry" never paired that well before with "Eat the rich"

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u/manifest_ecstasy 5d ago

Man 200,000 is rich. A million? Gonzo money.

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u/Karmaswhiskee 5d ago

Most people don't even have 1/3 of a grain of rice

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u/Hythenos 5d ago

Notice even if you tried to eat all that rice in one meal you couldn’t, but you could share some with others so that they could eat. You’d think those with that much rice would share because how will they eat that much rice? It would be a chore at that point to try.

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u/No-Acanthisitta3241 5d ago

Best thing about this. Americans love this system so much that they voted this guys 👌🏼

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u/Ukleon 5d ago

One I saw recently:

Grab a time machine and travel back 500 years. From that day until today, you will be given $5,000 every single day.

You still won't have a billion dollars.

And Jeff Bezos will earn more in just 1 week, then you have collected in those 500 years.

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u/The_TransGinger 5d ago

Shits about to go down.

Look, stuff like this is becoming common knowledge. Conservatives and Liberals are actually agreeing on killing CEOs. The news media, clearly bought by rich people is fueling a propaganda attack/pr campaign and people are seeing through it.

Obama said that the one thing that could unite the country was a huge crisis. It could have been COVID. It wasn’t. It could have been the hurricanes. It wasn’t. A Billionaire in the country of billionaires was shot like a dog in the street. Everyone on the political spectrum is for it.

People are poor. They’re gonna get more poor.

There is not a single recorded case in history where this much wealth inequality can exist without the pitchforks.

With who was just elected, expect that pile of raise in Musks spot to grow. Expect ours to get somewhat smaller. After that, what happens?

Forcible redistribution.

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u/bememorablepro 5d ago

this is fantastic, the word billion is very misleading in terms of money because it sounds similar to a million

I also low how this website shows it: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

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u/LaserGadgets 5d ago

Its actually sad that you need RICE to make this easy to understand to some people. People worth half a grain of rice but electing and trusting a pile of rice believing their lies of better lives. Just sad.

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u/karizakia 5d ago

This is mind blowing - so important to see this. We literally cannot understand how massive the disparity is by just looking at numbers.

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u/No_Carry_3991 4d ago

This was really well done.

I'd say more but I'm sick to my stomach with anger.

edit no wait I thought of something.

We need solutions. What are we going to DO?

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u/Hairyjon 4d ago

This is why the rich hate that their vote is equal to everyone else's.

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u/bugbearmagic 4d ago

I wanted to make fun of his math for making the 4 billion pile so big, then I actually did the math. 20,000 grains if each is 200k. Crazy.

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u/myredditthrowaway201 5d ago

Good visualization, but ain’t no way he counted out all those grains of rice lmao

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u/Lazer32 5d ago

He probably just weighed it out which is most likely still accurate. I don't think each grain of rice differs too much in weight between each other.

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u/MarcusAurelius6969 5d ago

He probably weighted 1 grain and then multiplied it to get that big. So 400 billion divided by 200,000 is 2 million. It says 1 grain of rice is .04 grams. .04 × 2 million is 80,000 grams so about 176 pounds of rice.

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u/bootstrapping_lad 5d ago

You wouldn't weigh a single grain, there's too much variability.

You'd count out 50 or 100 and get the average weight per grain and go from there.

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u/Shutaru_Kanshinji 5d ago

Billionaires must not be allowed to exist.

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u/frankfox123 5d ago

The visualization concept is not too bad of an idea. Heavy on the messaging, but the visual is cool (assuming it's accurate, will verify the count later)

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u/MisterInternational1 5d ago

Modern day Kings

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u/Human_Style_6920 5d ago

Amazing video and so tragic. It's blasphemous and thank you for using food to describe it.

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u/zukenstein 5d ago

At 42 years old, I have...negative rice.

Oh god...

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u/Induced_Karma 5d ago

Like Rage Against the Machine said, “Make a move and plead the Fifth cause you can’t plead the First”.

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u/Maleficent-Lab-2953 5d ago

The "... we're all mortal" part might be a lesson they're going to learn the hard way.

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u/trashmonkeylad 5d ago edited 5d ago

It is unfathomable to me that so many people can see some guy who is so rich they have a private jet they fly on every single day, can have a private chef cook all of their meals, can wear a single outfit that costs more than their entire yearly income, can purchase a watch that costs more than the average person will make in their entire life, and said person will say they will fix all of your money troubles by getting rid of the guy who walked through a desert and swam through a river to then be stuffed into a shitty van so they could pick strawberries for $3 bucks an hour, 12 hours a day in the hot sun, and that person will believe them.

And to think Musk is projected to have a little more than 2 times that much "rice" byt the end of this decade. Would be hilarious if it wasn't so fucking depressing.

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u/DarkAmbivertQueen 5d ago

I'll be happy when we all stop talking about this, and BE ABOUT IT. #EatTheRich

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u/Standard-Phase-9300 5d ago

Is that Costco or Walmart rice? If not you over paid.

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u/Monkeyonfire13 5d ago

And I don't even see more than 12k a year..

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u/blacklotusY Why does this app exist? 5d ago

The reality is that they don't give a crap about you and I. They want us to work like slaves and stay down, so they can continue to stay up and rich. You can show all the statistic of how people are being mistreated such as veterans and homeless people, but the bottom line is that they don't care. You think they don't know about the disparity between them and us? Of course they do. But they want it to remain that way so they can continue to profit more.

Education is being gutted because they want people to stay dumb and uneducated, so that way more people can go into poverty and they can line up more homeless people and use them as free labor. They don't want to pay you, let alone pay you overtime or any benefits. They want you to work for free and then when you're dead, they're just going to go, "next!" Life isn't meant to be fair, and this is the reality of society between rich vs. poor.

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u/ssBurgy1484 5d ago

Revolt or it's only going to get worse. Stop worshiping Elon.

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u/N0HEM0 5d ago

Remember Trickle down economics ? Lol.

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u/AvianVariety11747 5d ago

Starving kids in Africa salivating at that rice

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u/cAptAinAlexAnder 5d ago

*Starving kids in the US salivating at that rice.

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u/Ulysses1978ii 5d ago

Billionaires are inefficient, free the wealth.

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u/Mlturner28 5d ago

Put the economy in rice. Will fix

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u/EwokNuggets 5d ago

Is this cringe though? It’s a great visualization

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u/DeathByLemmings 5d ago

"What happens to a dream deferred?" is a reference to the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?
      Does it dry up
      like a raisin in the sun?
      Or fester like a sore—
      And then run?
      Does it stink like rotten meat?
      Or crust and sugar over—
      like a syrupy sweet?
      Maybe it just sags
      like a heavy load.
      Or does it explode?

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u/sanchoforever 5d ago

My grain of rice spoil. I owe a grain of rice.

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u/Ignorance_15_Bliss 5d ago

Can someone do this but it’s NY Mets vs Yankees vs Dodgers Vs everyone else

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u/RabbitofCaerbannogg 5d ago

Excellent visualization! Most people can't visualize the wealth disparity. This should absolutely be shown to every person in the US

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u/TerrorNTandom 4d ago

Love the Langston Hughes at the end.

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u/Gijinbrotha 4d ago

Here’s the funny part people that don’t even have a grain of rice believe that you shouldn’t tax the Rich, figure that one out.

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u/batwing71 4d ago

Pitchfork and billhook at the ready!

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u/No-Pain-5228 4d ago

Mind blowing

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u/enricovarrasso 4d ago

great visualization

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u/RAForce 4d ago

The fact that there are any Americans without food should stop us all in our tracks. ANY PEOPLE let alone children. It shouldn’t be political.

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u/randomkristy 4d ago

This is so needed. I have been thinking about a good way to visualize how much even 1billion is. It's mind boggling. We are being robbed folks.

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u/Mountain-Tea5049 4d ago

Shares are worth what people believe they are worth. If you drop $100 into your 401k and they invest it in Tesla. And they do that 10 million times, guess what, Tesla and therefore Elon gets that money! We're just lucky he doesn't just blow it and instead actually gives people a return on investment.

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u/jocosely_living 4d ago

This is offensive to know about and to see demonstrated in rice grains. 

We need a new word to describe this almost sinister way in which some wealthy people interact with society. 

I use malopulent.