Wealth To Scale

Standard issue currency - a single bill - as produced by the US Bureau Of Engraving, is .0043 inches thick (1 mm), and weighs .00220462 pounds (1 gram).

• A stack of 100-dollar bills equaling a million dollars is about 3½ feet tall and weighs about 22 pounds.
• A stack of 100-dollar bills equaling a billion dollars is over 3,000 feet tall and weighs over 20,000 pounds.
• Jeff Bezos owns a stack of 100-dollar bills that stands better than 120 miles high, and weighs well over 2,000 tons.

Jeff Bezos may be insanely rich, but it is a drop in the ocean compared with the combined wealth of his peers. 

The 400 richest Americans own about $3.2 trillion, which is more than the bottom 60% of Americans.

Now try to imagine a stack of 100-dollar bills equaling 3.2 trillion dollars that reaches almost to the moon.

To the fucking moon, motherfucker.

There's no way to get the whole concept of that level of wealth to fit in my little brain all at once, so here's a website that illustrates it:

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/