Now This is Doom Scrolling.
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Soon™ iwill have a panic attack, hemlp me🤕
Spoliers! You owe it to yourself experience it first without anyone else's comments, it only takes a few minutes.
An extremely powerful infographic, well designed and well sourced. I love how after they said everything they said, they leave you to keep scrolling the last third of the 3 trillion. No more commentary, just letting the scale of it sink in.
Though, something I wish they touched on in the infographic itself is rebuking the argument of “all that money is tied up in stocks! they don’t have that much money sitting around!” There are plenty of issues with that rebuttal of course and it’s not actually a valid defense of the ultra rich, but it’s a common enough counter that I think it warrants being mentioned to cover all your bases so to speak.
Also, there’s another one on the page about prison incarceration in the US, you should check that out as well
That actually is directly addressed on that website https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/THE_PAPER_BILLIONAIRE.md
Visited the site, and holy fucking shit
HOLY CRAP ITS SPEZ
holy shit it’s spez
fuck you
/s
The fact that the account has his name proves that it really is spez. This is exactly how the internet works.
As a Discord user, I am sad if this person took the username of the real spez, it means spez cannot use his username anymore :( no one would ever do that, it must therefore be the real one
Thanks Abe
Of course. Nobody would lie on the internet.
Why do people hate spez, he did a great job bringing people to Lemmy
I don’t hate spez
"fuck you"
WTF, bro, what are you doing in Lemmy?
They are so rich that my browser crashed while I was trying to speed scrolling the page to the end
On Android - it just kept resetting back to the left again…
I don’t like how American - centric this is but otherwise very… impressive
Because America is where most of the world’s wealth resides
Ok Google, look up richest country PPP
There are a bunch of other languages and countries here https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/README.md
I recommend visiting Gapminder. For example the Dollar Street, where you can get an inside how different life around the world is, depending on income.
Also, it’s various other statistical tools like this animated graph, where you can see the billionaires running away to the right. Also interesting is the short blip of people having more wealth at around 1980 - 2010, which immediately got sucked back into “slightly right of extreme poverty mountain”.
Imagine showing this on a linear axis
Also an inflation adjusted graph would be really nice.
It also seems very American to me that there is not a single mention of climate change in there
Hi, I’m actually the creator of that webpage. I’ll probably delete this comment later to protect my anonymity on lemmy, but while I have you here I’d like to address this concern. I actually did consider a few sections on climate change, and the main thing that stopped me is that the scale of the climate emergency is so much more massive than people generally understand.
A to-scale illustration of the cost to solve climate change would be thousands of times larger than this graphic, and even then, international cooperation and climate denialism would remain major hurdles. I considered some smaller ticket items like “cost to install electric car chargers in every city” and stuff like that, but everything I came up with made only a small dent on its own.
Eventually, I began work on another project visualizing the world’s largest carbon emitters, which really got to the heart of the matter in displaying corporate greed, but at that point it would have been my fourth doom scroll visualization project, and I had had enough.
I’ve lost the will to live. Why do this place even exist?
There is no reason
It’s just mindless competition
Lmao this hurts
It’s interesting that the wealth bar of the 400 richest Americans is about 6-times as long as the author needs to say some interesting points.
I’d argue that’s another good argument for seizing their assets and making them pay for their asshole behaviour.
Honestly, probably the only way to save the Environment and Democracy. Too much power in the hands of the few leads to perpetual effective monarchy. It’s why the Founding Fathers were against large amounts of inherited wealth, particularly inherited wealth that creates dynasties in perpetuity.
I know people don’t like the Founding Fathers that much lately, and I see why, but conservatives really don’t understand them, and deliberately misrepresent them, because not doing so would undercut all conservative “policies”.
World’s a mess because of inequality and the concentration of almost all wealth and power into the hands of a small amount of sociopaths. I honestly think the only way to solve this permanently is to cap the amount of wealth and power any individual or family can have.
You put that perfectly. Thank you.
I went to that link and it was horrible, no the site is simple it’s just when it went to Bezos … then look at all the things we could have to make things better (free healthcare, free college, etc) just sickening.
BuT hE’s A pHiLaNtRoPiSt! He HeLpS SoCiEtY…
…to maintain the status quo of undertaxing rich people and letting monopolies rule industries.
And actually he does not have any money because its just his assets and what other people think they are worth but he is actually quite poor because he immediately spends all the money he makes to invest into new ideas to make the world an even better place for everyone.
We know he can’t quickly withraw the money at a good rate bit that does not make him not rich AF.
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I have a friend that used to be super into watching morbid stuff like gore and snuff videos. He stopped a few years ago and last time I asked him he told me that he can’t handle them anymore, same goes for another person I know.
In my case I’ve never been able to watch too much of those things, but I know I’m able to handle situations where blood and stuff is involved as I’ve studied anatomy with dead human bodies and also worked with injured people. I like to think I’ve had a bit of a healthier relationship with the effects of violence on humans.
this reminded me of how 4channers purposely desensitize themselves to gore and other heinous stuff, but they cant escape the pain of loneliness. and it could be solved if they just didnt act like massive pieces of shit. then they blame it on women and the supposed phenomenon of them only dating the “top 20%” of men! its probably the stupidest self-fulfilling prophecy
jfc, you dont even have to have basic hygiene (tho that helps), just be nice!! dont be a misanthropic shut-in with a hyper-inflated ego and unearned confidence in ur intelligence. but when they try to be nice it isnt bc they want others to be happy, its to get something, so they come off as a disingenuous Nice Guy. i hate them but also kind of feel bad for them. maybe if they didnt get caught in this vicious cycle some of them wouldnt be reactionary assholes
sorry for the tangent, good meme
They competitively numbed themselves with gore/torture treats to try to impress other numbed people and are shocked that being emotionally numb makes them repulsive.
Emotional numbness isn’t repulsive in itself, disregard for others is. People can feel emotions less intensely than others or lack emotional empathy(feeling what others feel) but still make friends through genuinely putting effort.
It’s repulsive as a coercive competition between hateful nihilistic 4chan fascists. It’s a contagious way to wreck people’s social lives needlessly by peer pressure and false promises.
Being numb by other means or just as a default isn’t the same thing as being numb because edgy internet nazis say it’s cool to do that.
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
