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    1. graphguy on

      Data source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires

      Software used: SAS

      Here is a version with HTML mouse-over text on the bars, so you can see the names/amounts/etc:
      https://robslink.com/SAS/democd104/billionaires_top_10.htm

      This is my ‘remix’ of a graph JoeFalchetto posted a few days ago. Their graph showed how many billionaires in the top 10 per country, whereas mine shows the $ amount. Yes, it’s not fair to compare 1987 dollars to 2024 dollars – I could convert it to current dollars or something. But it is what it is, and this is what I wanted to see a graph of (it’s good to look at the same data in many different ways, and this is one of the ways).

      One feature I find interesting is that the amounts really went up during the last 4 years. Did the billionaires get richer? Did governments print more money? Other factors/reasons?

    3. RaJiska on

      Title probably would need to be different, do you mean the top 10 richest billionaires’ cumulated wealth?

    5. Pyrhan on

      Something doesn’t seem right with your data.

      I presume the rectangular section are one billionaire’s net worth each?

      If you look at, say, 2024, then the orange rectangle, which must be Bernad Arnault (net worth around 200 billion in 2024), appears to be longer than any of the blue rectangles, which should include both Musk (Net worth estimated around 400 billion at the end of 2024), Jeff Bezos (net worth around 250 billion in 2024) and Mark Zuckerberg (net worth around 219 billion in 2024).

      Also, you’re comparing sums from the 1980s to today, but don’t specify whether this is inflation-adjusted? (It probably should be, or at least an inflation-adjusted version should be provided.)

    7. staplesuponstaples on

      Why did Japan have all those billionaires in the 80s? Was it purely cause the auto and tech businesses were popping off so hard?

    10. LeCrushinator on

      Really shows how much wealth inequality has gone off the rails since the 2008 recession.

    13. Bright_Vision on

      Rich people fucking loved the pandemic. And now the US pulled out of the World Health Organization, who helped make that pandemic shorter.

    14. u4got2wipe on

      “Money is speech” became a thing in 2010, number go up ever since. I wish I could get that kind of representation in government

    15. revolving9 on

      overall wealth has doubled from 750 in 2015 to 1500 in 2024. so happy for these ten individuals