150million-to-300-thousand

150million-to-300-thousand, originally uploaded by 27ray.

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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