How Rich?

It would be good if I could figure out how to embed this, but I can't - and it's possible the people who came up with it are smart enough not to give me the chance.

Anyway, go look it over, and scroll all the way thru it so you get the full effect of just how fucked up our system of "meritocratic capitalism" has become.

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

I got ridiculously lucky and made a few million dollars in my career. If you take all that money and make a stack of 100-dollar bills, it would be about 10 feet tall.

If you take all of Jeff Bezos's money (let's be really conservative and say $150 billion), and you make a stack of 100-dollar bills, it would be over 100 miles tall.

100 MILES