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I don't like how American - centric this is but otherwise very... impressive
I recommend visiting Gapminder. For example the Dollar Street, where you can get an inside how different life around the world is, depending on income.
Also, it's various other statistical tools like this animated graph, where you can see the billionaires running away to the right. Also interesting is the short blip of people having more wealth at around 1980 - 2010, which immediately got sucked back into "slightly right of extreme poverty mountain".
Imagine showing this on a linear axis
Also an inflation adjusted graph would be really nice.
It also seems very American to me that there is not a single mention of climate change in there
Hi, I'm actually the creator of that webpage. I'll probably delete this comment later to protect my anonymity on lemmy, but while I have you here I'd like to address this concern. I actually did consider a few sections on climate change, and the main thing that stopped me is that the scale of the climate emergency is so much more massive than people generally understand.
A to-scale illustration of the cost to solve climate change would be thousands of times larger than this graphic, and even then, international cooperation and climate denialism would remain major hurdles. I considered some smaller ticket items like "cost to install electric car chargers in every city" and stuff like that, but everything I came up with made only a small dent on its own.
Eventually, I began work on another project visualizing the world's largest carbon emitters, which really got to the heart of the matter in displaying corporate greed, but at that point it would have been my fourth doom scroll visualization project, and I had had enough.
I truly applaud your mental fortitude. I honestly had to stop scrolling through your info graphic after passing the malaria part. I simply couldn't take it all in at once. I will come back to it tomorrow and take in another chunk of it, I'll see how far I get then but I intend to take it all in albeit in bite sized chunks.
Keep it up and I'll be looking for more of your projects later if I can handle it. The world is truly broken but I'm a firm believer that eventually we the common people will open our eyes to it and enact change. I don't know how and I wish I knew how to contribute to that in some way even though I don't believe I have the power within the current system.
Thank you.
There are a bunch of other languages and countries here https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/README.md
Because America is where most of the world's wealth resides
Ok Google, look up richest country PPP