{"id":77180,"date":"2023-06-20T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/?p=77180"},"modified":"2023-09-06T19:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:08:43","slug":"i-made-a-chart-of-wealth-inequality-and-it-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/i-made-a-chart-of-wealth-inequality-and-it-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"I Made a Chart of Wealth Inequality and it Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Explore the Wealth Gap<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Wealth inequality is most often visualized as a steep curve with a tiny amount of wealth for poor people on the left and a big pile of wealth for a few rich people on the right.<\/p>\n

Generally-speaking, this is a pretty accurate picture of how wealth and power are distributed, but I’ve often wondered how steep the curve really<\/em> is.<\/p>\n

To find out, I scraped some data from the Forbes list of billionaires and squeezed it into the\u00a0tiny sliver of the population on the right side of the X-axis. Plotting this data on one, meaningful chart proved to be just as futile as the struggle\u00a0for success in a capitalist society.<\/p>\n

You’re welcome to play with the chart<\/a> or just watch the video below:<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The wealth gap is ginormous, even if you’re a billionaire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,8,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interactive","category-interesting","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77184,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77180\/revisions\/77184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}