Drawn at $5,000 a pixel, the average top-1% household is a 145-foot stack of bills (dreamagainusa.org)
An interactive chart draws US household wealth to scale, one pixel per $5,000 and one column per percent of households. The top 0.1% is 136,095 households, each shown as a stack of $100 bills.
The thread's first fight was not about the picture but about whether wealth is even the right thing to measure.
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