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    1. Data sources used: UBS Global Wealth Report, World Inequality Database, Forbes World’s Billionaires List, Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances.

      Tools used: HTML/CSS/SVG/Javascript/Scroll/Codex.

    2. Why did you stick two columns related to the amount of *money* in between two very closely related columns about how many *people* are in each group?

    3. anewpath123 on

      This is a good chart for explaining why “eat the rich” doesn’t really work out in practice.

      The middle class have significantly more wealth overall to siphon from due to sheer numbers

    4. I don’t get that graphics. So on Level 4 it is around 1 in 3 people (33%) but also 12% and top 40%? And what’s that capital column? Combined value of all people? A bit confusing tbh.

    5. marcduberge on

      Top .03%. I still turn lights off and bulk shop for food and drive 20 year old cars. Mind blown

    6. I think it would have made more sense if the capital on the right was cumulative

      Do the top 1% have 40% of the wealth of ~54% of the wealth.

    7. This is incredibly hard to read if you don’t already know what all the columns are. Capital is not a significantly different descriptor from dollar amount of the class. The capital column should say „total capital“ or „total capital of class“. And why is the percent of population expressed as 1 of x whereas the percent of total capital is expressed as a percent?

    8. conventionistG on

      I can’t guess what you’re getting at with those little bars. Very poor form not to label anything.

    9. I find it hard to believe that there are only 78M people in the whole world with $1M+ in wealth. 

      Are you taking household wealth divided by household size or something?

    10. OldManLaugh on

      This is so unfair, how come I’ve only worked a year of my life part time and am in the top 40% of humanity? Meanwhile 350 million people are in net debt. This graph is depressing.

    11. monsterfurby on

      Are we talking capital or net worth? It goes to below $0, but it also uses the word „capital“, which can’t really coexist in my understanding.

    12. aDeepKafkaesqueStare on

      I’m struggling to believe the number of millionaires.

      1 in 103 might be true for the western world. If we’re being very generous, that’s like 1 billion people at most, implying 9.7 Mio Millionaires.

      So, the rest of the world is housing another ~70 Mio millionaires…?

    13. JohnathantheCat on

      Colours are for graphs not text (generally). A good rule of thumb is evergthing you do on a graphic should be deliberate and have a purpose. You should be able to explain every decision you made while producing a graphic, its objective, and other thing considered. This will help your process as well as you result.

      Orange numbers in coloumns = OK, change text colour in one column = not OK.

      Edit: pretty much everything

    14. As others have said, needs some tweaks, but I like it.

      I find it interesting to think, if only one tier existed, and everyone would have equal amount of wealth, how many people would actually be in the world.

      So if everyone was tier 12, there would be only 500 people in the entire world.
      Or for tire 6, there would be 195m people in the world.

      It’s wild to think any homeowner in Northern Europe is almost certainly in tier 6 or above.

    15. Chief-Drinking-Bear on

      1 in 3k people having $10M+ globally is crazy to me, it sounds like so much money but that’s not even particularly rare

    16. Strongly suggest to remove the abbreviations (K, M, T) seeing all the actual zeroes removes a layer of abstraction that makes people think the numbers are lower than they really are.

      It’s hard to grasp, but you and I are closer to being the second richest person in the world, (Larry Page), than Larry is to being the richest person in the world, Musk.

      Numbers and statistics are hard to imagine when you’re dealing with bonker numbers. We’re rapidly moving to a neo feudalist society, but most people are ok with this because they don’t realize the orders of magnitude we are actually talking about .

    17. Is there a graph that shows the growth of billionaires and people in poverty in developed countries? eg for every billionaire there’s a million people in poverty

    18. The initial design looks good, but the intent is very hard to read. This is not beautiful because the original intent of the figure, the primary goal, is not conveyed clearly.

      For instance: what is happening in the second column? It starts scaling in one direction and then… does the opposite?

      The color choices and typesetting look good, but more needs to go into this.

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