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Visualising Jeff Bezos's $370 billion fortune, to scale

Original: Quanti sono 370 miliardi di dollari? È il patrimonio di Jeff Bezos, e il nostro cervello non riesce a immaginarlo. In oc

Jeff Bezos's estimated wealth of 370 billion dollars is so vast that the human brain struggles to grasp it. An Italian site has relaunched Matt Korostoff's 'Wealth, shown to scale', an interactive visualisation that disappeared from the web but carries a free licence, redoing it ahead of Black Friday to make extreme inequality tangible. The project stacks Bezos's fortune against ordinary salaries, showing how many lifetimes of work it represents.

Why now: The relaunch of the wealth visualisation ahead of Black Friday is drawing attention to extreme inequality and the scale of billionaire fortunes.

Jeff BezosMatt KorostoffLe AlternativeBlack Friday

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