Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale
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Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderGiven a reasonable benchmark of $3 million to retire comfortably in most places in the US, Jeff Bezos could retire a mere 60,000 times. Tell me how a person can "earn" enough money by doing work that produces 60,000 lifetimes worth of wealth. You can't. Instead, Jeff is the beneficiary of a system by which he extracts an increment of the benefit that every person participating in the system derives (presumably over the old system). It boggles the mind that…
I disagree on the the thrust of the argument - that people (including comparatively wealthy individuals like doctors and lawyers) oppose changes to tackle wealth inequality because they don’t understand the gulf of wealth between them and the ultra rich. In my experience it has nothing to do with that - rather these people know that they will ultimately end up as the main target for any such law, not these billionaires. Time and time again the wealth of the…
This is often the problem I see with people mixing up Wealth and Income. A person with $100K income could also have millions of wealth or asset from stocks to property. Jeff Bezos has most of this wealth from Stocks. And I am willing to bet $100 given the current market cap and PE or PEG, his resignation from the company and liquidations of his Amazon Asset will trigger a sell off that its value differs quite a lot to…
2021
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 377
- Total comments
- 404
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-27 | Wealth Inequalities Shown to the ScaleFirst breakout | subrat_rout | 101 | 48 |
| 2021-08-02 | Pixel Wealth | jdkee | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-08-09 | Wealth Shown to Scale | deepanchor | 107 | 138 |
| 2023-02-03 | Wealth, Shown to Scale | loudtdarrow | 2 | 1 |
| 2023-10-05 | One Pixel Wealth | robertwt7 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023-10-20 | Wealth Shown to a Pixel ScaleHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | kinnth | 158 | 215 |
| 2025-01-22 | Wealth Shown to Scale | archagon | 6 | 1 |