The Scale of Things
150million-to-300-thousand
I was watching the pod cast of the Rachel Madow show and guest mentioned that the top "one tenth of one percent of the population of he US has the same wealth as the bottom 50%." So i wanted to see that this looked like. Percents and hundreds of millions et al are hard for my small human brain to understand.
This is what i came up with. each square on this chart is equal to 30,000 humans. Yes EACH one. on the left are 4,900 (4,900 x 30,000 = 147,000,000) representing roughly 50% of the U.S. Pop. (of 300 million humans) and the right side represents 30,000 (0.001 of 300 million)
The dollar image is laid over each side equally and each full side is equal.
I am struck by how much more room the right side has and how the dollar is more clear, reflecting for me how having large pools of money makes getting what you need or need done much easier, much clearer.
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Proportion
I was looking at these amazing photos on the great boston.com "the Big Picture" site and was struck by the disparity of the destruction. So i made this image breaking out the images by side of the "battle". I do not profess to understand humans or their actions. best viewed full size.
www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/scenes_from_the_gaza_st...
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