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Wealth, Shown to Scale
Wealth, Shown to Scale visualizes differences in wealth using comparisons from household income to billionaire fortunes.
About Wealth, Shown to Scale
Wealth, Shown to Scale is an interactive visualization of wealth inequality in the United States. It uses a long horizontal scale to compare amounts from household income to billionaire fortunes. A later section explores what shares of the wealth held by the 400 richest Americans could fund.
Pricing is not clearly stated.
Key features
- Scale runs from $1,000 through $68,000 median household income, $1 million, $1 billion and $185 billion
- Notes that the $3.2 trillion held by the 400 richest Americans is more than the bottom 60% of Americans own
- Markers include lifetime earnings, Amazon warehouse pay, health care for a family of four, housing every homeless US veteran and chemotherapy costs
- Explores possible costs for global coronavirus vaccination and malaria eradication
- Navigation uses Shift + mousewheel or a sideways touchpad swipe, with Zoom In and Zoom Out controls
Wealth, Shown to Scale at a glance
- Website
- wealth.ronnycoste.com
- Category
- Education & Learning › History & Humanities
- Type
- Website
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Web
- Details verified
- Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
- Open source
- Not stated
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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