A visualization of the wealth of Jeff Bezos. I promise you if you’ve not seen something like this it will blow your mind. Comprehending the vast wealth of the super rich is almost like trying to comprehend the size of the universe.
What’s scarier is this is old and it’s representing less than half of what someone like Musk has. And the fact that it’s only a few years old means we’re accelerating our wealth inequality at light speed.
yngwiegiles on
What knocked Bernie out in 2020? Billionaires got scared so Bloomberg entered the race, took damage but enough to end Bernie
DeUglyBarnacle on
God the Fox News comments make me wanna kms. Some people will just look for any reason to lick a boot.
blues111 on
If only we voted in the person who actually wanted to help the average people and not the billionaires
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lol the pic is doing some reaching here
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To quote the Wobblies “The working class and the ruling class have nothing in common”
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Notable U.S. Billionaires (2024)
Pretty wide spread of hoarded wealth here… what do y’all think? Enemies of the state? Plunderers of the planet? What do these individual Americans deserve?
#### **1. Elon Musk** – $240 billion
CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and other ventures.
#### **2. Jeff Bezos** – $156 billion
Founder of Amazon.
#### **3. Bill Gates** – $114 billion
Co-founder of Microsoft.
#### **4. Larry Ellison** – $107 billion
Co-founder of Oracle.
#### **5. Warren Buffett** – $105 billion
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
#### **6. Larry Page** – $100 billion
Co-founder of Google.
#### **7. Sergey Brin** – $98 billion
Co-founder of Google.
#### **8. Mark Zuckerberg** – $93 billion
Co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms.
#### **9. Steve Ballmer** – $91 billion
Former CEO of Microsoft, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
#### **10. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers** – $89 billion
L’Oréal heiress, with significant U.S. business operations.
#### **11. Michael Bloomberg** – $74 billion
Founder of Bloomberg LP.
#### **12. Jim Walton** – $73 billion
Heir to Walmart fortune.
#### **13. Alice Walton** – $72 billion
Heir to Walmart fortune.
#### **14. Rob Walton** – $71 billion
Heir to Walmart fortune.
#### **15. Charles Koch** – $66 billion
Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries.
#### **16. Julia Koch** – $60 billion
Widow of David Koch, with stake in Koch Industries.
#### **17. Ken Griffin** – $57 billion
Founder of Citadel.
#### **18. Phil Knight** – $55 billion
Co-founder of Nike.
#### **19. MacKenzie Scott** – $52 billion
Ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, philanthropist.
#### **20. Reed Hastings** – $50 billion
Co-founder of Netflix.
#### **21. John Malone** – $49 billion
Chairman of Liberty Media.
#### **22. S. Daniel Abraham** – $47 billion
Founder of SlimFast, investor.
#### **23. Ralph Lauren** – $46 billion
Founder of Ralph Lauren Corporation.
#### **24. Jim Simons** – $45 billion
Founder of Renaissance Technologies.
#### **25. David Tepper** – $44 billion
Founder of Appaloosa Management.
#### **26. Phil Knight (Nike)** – $43 billion
Co-founder of Nike.
#### **27. Jeff Yass** – $42 billion
Co-founder of 3G Capital and investor.
#### **28. George Soros** – $41 billion
Founder of Soros Fund Management.
#### **29. Stephen Schwarzman** – $40 billion
Co-founder and CEO of Blackstone Group.
### Real Estate and Construction:
– **Donald Bren** – $17 billion
(Real estate mogul, Irvine Company)
– **Stephen Ross** – $9 billion
(Real estate developer, owner of Miami Dolphins)
ElDub73 on
Don’t forget all of the willing accomplices who are not billionaires but actively support them.
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The people vs the billionaires and the traitorous citizens who just voted them into office. Those hate-filled bigots who voted for Trump aren’t on the side of the people and they can never be trusted. They are not forgiven because “the price of eggs”. Maybe in 2016 they could be forgiven but not after 2024.
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> If you read the Washington Post, Fox or the Los Angeles Times, your news is owned by billionaires Bezos, Murdoch or Patrick Soon-Shiong.
👀
NoOnesKing on
Bernie genuinely needs to threaten Dem leadership with a third party because they won’t learn or listen until he does. And frankly, after this election I think there’s a very real chance a Bernie third party split would completely destroy the Democratic Party.
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which side are the democratic billionaires on?
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Bernie sees it. We need another 99% movement, this time with leadership.
RealPrinceJay on
I bet Bernie loves the movie Matewan(I do too)
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How was Bernie able to put this on Fox News?
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Billionaires are directly threatened by higher education and expertise. An influential university professor like Elizabeth Warren can create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and return billions to average Americans who suffered corporate fraud. Scientists can force Big Tobacco to put warning labels on cigarettes and stop people from smoking indoors.
Again and again over the last half century, conservatives have identified college education as the main barrier to their goals. Expertise is the enemy to a Republican.
This is why they are so aggressively trying to defund our great research universities, and undermine public education. Education is the best way to reverse the disturbing effects of their propaganda, which was so successful in the last presidential election.
In order to improve education (preschool, public K-12, university and beyond) the only way forward is to seize political power. It requires **solidarity** at the polls.
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Hear, Hear!!
Darksol503 on
And we had the votes to put this man in power…
The American political system has perfected manufacture consent lol
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The CEO’s are the problem, and they always have been.
TorinsPassage on
The power the elites wield over us is too deeply ingrained to uproot peacefully, more than likely. Voting harder just hasn’t materialized real, lasting change. The fascists won and are going to make things even worse, and widen the wealth inequality gap even further. Unless the 99% finally wake up and organize a general strike and actually hold the rich accountable, no change for the better is likely to ever happen without more extreme methods. Such methods which would get one banned for promoting, but which may enter more peoples’ minds the worse things get.
Bernie is great but he’s been preaching to the choir for years. Calling the elites out isn’t going to get them to change, only action will.
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The People vs the *Oligarchs. They stopped being plain ole capitalists once they started getting involved with politicians.
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Sanders is damn right about the malignant wealthy and we the peope.
Cute_Technology_4736 on
Too bad a few thousand Jill Stein voters and Bernie Bros decided to let perfect be the enemy of good, so now we have no shot at a better world for 4 more years.
thejamielee on
it’s not even the billionaire class, it’s the millionaire and wealth classes that literally already have more than enough for a lifetime and yet cannot fathom a better world where there is more wealth distribution. Billionaires may be the alphas of this horrid group of individuals, but they are all collectively choosing personal greed where none is even needed. And this is all due to the fact that we as a nation have a very transparent pay-to-play system. Abolish that and we get away from this oligarchy we’ve become.
fattyboombatty79 on
The comments at the bottom of that article are depressing. Completely entrenched mindset.
dhusk on
Two Americas: the people vs. the billionaires **and their toadies**
FTFY
The oligarchs couldn’t really do that much if so many people weren’t so willing to fall for their BS and follow them. It’s as much on them as on the rich.
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He’s preaching to the choir but people keep voting for this. There is a huge disconnect between what people need and want versus who they vote for.
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
A visualization of the wealth of Jeff Bezos. I promise you if you’ve not seen something like this it will blow your mind. Comprehending the vast wealth of the super rich is almost like trying to comprehend the size of the universe.
What’s scarier is this is old and it’s representing less than half of what someone like Musk has. And the fact that it’s only a few years old means we’re accelerating our wealth inequality at light speed.
What knocked Bernie out in 2020? Billionaires got scared so Bloomberg entered the race, took damage but enough to end Bernie
God the Fox News comments make me wanna kms. Some people will just look for any reason to lick a boot.
If only we voted in the person who actually wanted to help the average people and not the billionaires
lol the pic is doing some reaching here
To quote the Wobblies “The working class and the ruling class have nothing in common”
Notable U.S. Billionaires (2024)
Pretty wide spread of hoarded wealth here… what do y’all think? Enemies of the state? Plunderers of the planet? What do these individual Americans deserve?
#### **1. Elon Musk** – $240 billion
CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and other ventures.
#### **2. Jeff Bezos** – $156 billion
Founder of Amazon.
#### **3. Bill Gates** – $114 billion
Co-founder of Microsoft.
#### **4. Larry Ellison** – $107 billion
Co-founder of Oracle.
#### **5. Warren Buffett** – $105 billion
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
#### **6. Larry Page** – $100 billion
Co-founder of Google.
#### **7. Sergey Brin** – $98 billion
Co-founder of Google.
#### **8. Mark Zuckerberg** – $93 billion
Co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms.
#### **9. Steve Ballmer** – $91 billion
Former CEO of Microsoft, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
#### **10. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers** – $89 billion
L’Oréal heiress, with significant U.S. business operations.
#### **11. Michael Bloomberg** – $74 billion
Founder of Bloomberg LP.
#### **12. Jim Walton** – $73 billion
Heir to Walmart fortune.
#### **13. Alice Walton** – $72 billion
Heir to Walmart fortune.
#### **14. Rob Walton** – $71 billion
Heir to Walmart fortune.
#### **15. Charles Koch** – $66 billion
Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries.
#### **16. Julia Koch** – $60 billion
Widow of David Koch, with stake in Koch Industries.
#### **17. Ken Griffin** – $57 billion
Founder of Citadel.
#### **18. Phil Knight** – $55 billion
Co-founder of Nike.
#### **19. MacKenzie Scott** – $52 billion
Ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, philanthropist.
#### **20. Reed Hastings** – $50 billion
Co-founder of Netflix.
#### **21. John Malone** – $49 billion
Chairman of Liberty Media.
#### **22. S. Daniel Abraham** – $47 billion
Founder of SlimFast, investor.
#### **23. Ralph Lauren** – $46 billion
Founder of Ralph Lauren Corporation.
#### **24. Jim Simons** – $45 billion
Founder of Renaissance Technologies.
#### **25. David Tepper** – $44 billion
Founder of Appaloosa Management.
#### **26. Phil Knight (Nike)** – $43 billion
Co-founder of Nike.
#### **27. Jeff Yass** – $42 billion
Co-founder of 3G Capital and investor.
#### **28. George Soros** – $41 billion
Founder of Soros Fund Management.
#### **29. Stephen Schwarzman** – $40 billion
Co-founder and CEO of Blackstone Group.
#### **30. Kirk Kerkorian (estate)** – $39 billion
Investor, deceased; fortune inherited by family.
#### **31. Mark Cuban** – $38 billion
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, entrepreneur.
#### **32. Tim Cook** – $37 billion
CEO of Apple.
#### **33. Richard Branson** – $36 billion
Founder of Virgin Group, has major U.S. operations.
#### **34. Bernard Arnault (LVMH)** – $35 billion
LVMH CEO with significant U.S. assets.
#### **35. Jack Ma (Alibaba)** – $34 billion
Founder of Alibaba, with large investments in the U.S.
#### **36. Larry Fink** – $33 billion
Chairman and CEO of BlackRock.
#### **37. David Rubenstein** – $32 billion
Co-founder of Carlyle Group.
#### **38. Carl Icahn** – $31 billion
Activist investor.
#### **39. Evan Spiegel** – $30 billion
Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc.
#### **40. Brian Chesky** – $29 billion
Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb.
#### **41. Travis Kalanick** – $28 billion
Co-founder of Uber, founder of CloudKitchens.
#### **42. Jack Dorsey** – $27 billion
Co-founder of Twitter and Square.
#### **43. Peter Thiel** – $26 billion
Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies.
#### **44. Sheryl Sandberg** – $25 billion
Former COO of Facebook.
#### **45. Sam Bankman-Fried (estate)** – $24 billion
Former CEO of FTX, wealth contested due to legal issues.
#### **46. Dustin Moskovitz** – $23 billion
Co-founder of Facebook, Asana.
#### **47. Larry Page (Google)** – $22 billion
Co-founder of Google, Alphabet.
#### **48. Sergey Brin (Google)** – $21 billion
Co-founder of Google, Alphabet.
#### **49. Eric Schmidt** – $20 billion
Former CEO of Google, former executive chairman of Alphabet.
#### **50. Oprah Winfrey** – $20 billion
Media mogul, founder of OWN Network.
—
### Other Notable U.S. Billionaires:
1. **Larry Page** – $20 billion
Co-founder of Google.
2. **Betsy DeVos** – $19 billion
Former U.S. Secretary of Education, investor.
3. **Leonard Lauder** – $18 billion
Chairman emeritus of Estée Lauder Companies.
4. **Julia Koch** – $17 billion
Widow of David Koch, heiress to Koch Industries.
5. **Peter Jackson** – $15 billion
Film director, producer, and entrepreneur.
—
### Tech and Startup Founders:
– **Evan Spiegel** – $28 billion (Snap Inc.)
– **Brian Chesky** – $29 billion (Airbnb)
– **Reed Hastings** – $50 billion (Netflix)
– **Travis Kalanick** – $28 billion (Uber, CloudKitchens)
– **Jack Dorsey** – $27 billion (Twitter, Square)
### Finance and Investment:
– **Ken Griffin** – $57 billion (Citadel)
– **Stephen Schwarzman** – $40 billion (Blackstone Group)
– **David Rubenstein** – $32 billion (Carlyle Group)
– **Carl Icahn** – $31 billion (Activist Investor)
– **Jeff Yass** – $42 billion (3G Capital, investor)
### Retail:
– **Jim Walton** – $73 billion (Walmart heir)
– **Alice Walton** – $72 billion (Walmart heir)
– **Rob Walton** – $71 billion (Walmart heir)
– **Phil Knight** – $55 billion (Nike)
– **Ralph Lauren** – $46 billion (Ralph Lauren Corporation)
—
### Real Estate and Construction:
– **Donald Bren** – $17 billion
(Real estate mogul, Irvine Company)
– **Stephen Ross** – $9 billion
(Real estate developer, owner of Miami Dolphins)
Don’t forget all of the willing accomplices who are not billionaires but actively support them.
The people vs the billionaires and the traitorous citizens who just voted them into office. Those hate-filled bigots who voted for Trump aren’t on the side of the people and they can never be trusted. They are not forgiven because “the price of eggs”. Maybe in 2016 they could be forgiven but not after 2024.
> If you read the Washington Post, Fox or the Los Angeles Times, your news is owned by billionaires Bezos, Murdoch or Patrick Soon-Shiong.
👀
Bernie genuinely needs to threaten Dem leadership with a third party because they won’t learn or listen until he does. And frankly, after this election I think there’s a very real chance a Bernie third party split would completely destroy the Democratic Party.
which side are the democratic billionaires on?
Bernie sees it. We need another 99% movement, this time with leadership.
I bet Bernie loves the movie Matewan(I do too)
How was Bernie able to put this on Fox News?
Billionaires are directly threatened by higher education and expertise. An influential university professor like Elizabeth Warren can create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and return billions to average Americans who suffered corporate fraud. Scientists can force Big Tobacco to put warning labels on cigarettes and stop people from smoking indoors.
[The modern American conservative movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Memorandum,_1971) was based on **reversing** consumer protection, and in particular to attack experts warning about the risks of smoking, and driving without seatbelts.
Again and again over the last half century, conservatives have identified college education as the main barrier to their goals. Expertise is the enemy to a Republican.
This is why they are so aggressively trying to defund our great research universities, and undermine public education. Education is the best way to reverse the disturbing effects of their propaganda, which was so successful in the last presidential election.
In order to improve education (preschool, public K-12, university and beyond) the only way forward is to seize political power. It requires **solidarity** at the polls.
Hear, Hear!!
And we had the votes to put this man in power…
The American political system has perfected manufacture consent lol
The CEO’s are the problem, and they always have been.
The power the elites wield over us is too deeply ingrained to uproot peacefully, more than likely. Voting harder just hasn’t materialized real, lasting change. The fascists won and are going to make things even worse, and widen the wealth inequality gap even further. Unless the 99% finally wake up and organize a general strike and actually hold the rich accountable, no change for the better is likely to ever happen without more extreme methods. Such methods which would get one banned for promoting, but which may enter more peoples’ minds the worse things get.
Bernie is great but he’s been preaching to the choir for years. Calling the elites out isn’t going to get them to change, only action will.
The People vs the *Oligarchs. They stopped being plain ole capitalists once they started getting involved with politicians.
Sanders is damn right about the malignant wealthy and we the peope.
Too bad a few thousand Jill Stein voters and Bernie Bros decided to let perfect be the enemy of good, so now we have no shot at a better world for 4 more years.
it’s not even the billionaire class, it’s the millionaire and wealth classes that literally already have more than enough for a lifetime and yet cannot fathom a better world where there is more wealth distribution. Billionaires may be the alphas of this horrid group of individuals, but they are all collectively choosing personal greed where none is even needed. And this is all due to the fact that we as a nation have a very transparent pay-to-play system. Abolish that and we get away from this oligarchy we’ve become.
The comments at the bottom of that article are depressing. Completely entrenched mindset.
Two Americas: the people vs. the billionaires **and their toadies**
FTFY
The oligarchs couldn’t really do that much if so many people weren’t so willing to fall for their BS and follow them. It’s as much on them as on the rich.