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American Wealth, Sliced Up (europe.pub)

submitted 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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We’re having a pizza party with 100 guests! Let’s divvy up the slices the way wealth is divided among American households.

https://kottke.org/26/05/american-wealth-sliced-up

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[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 32 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This doesnt line up with the source data...

It sorta seems like they picked random people lol

Also they are mixing together actual wealth with people's unrealized wealth....

[–] adb@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Indeed, this looks very unserious.

Unrealized wealth isn’t a thing though. You’re mixing it up with unrealized gains (edit: an already quite dubious concept) Stock is wealth, just like your house.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

My bad, you are definitely right there, in which case the graph is... a bit more correct.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

Yes, this.
It amazes me how quickly ppl will defend/repeat oligarch propaganda on the subjects they don't (want to?) understand.