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The richest person on that list is Elon Musk. Convert his net worth to centimeters and it’s enough to circle the globe more than 100 times.

It’s not even really comparable.
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So what happens when you get to the billionaires? Well, Bloomberg has a running list of the wealthiest people in the world.

The poorest of that 500-person list is almost two complete orbits of the globe away from poverty.
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But only relatively. If you make a million dollars, we’re not even talking about blocks anymore. You’re way out in the harbor.
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If you make $200,000 a year, quite a bit more than poverty level, you end up more than 20 blocks away. Quite a distance!
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The distance between poverty and the median income, meanwhile, is slightly further: about seven blocks.
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I decided to convert dollars to centimeters. That allows us to visualize, for example, the distance between having no money and being at poverty level — about four city blocks.
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4. Other good charts, like this look at where and when certain behaviors are acceptable.

3. Prediction markets — or, as they probably should be called, “markets.”

2. Trump and the art of the government shutdown.

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Chart attack, including this survey of croissants.

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The overlap of Tesla and politics.

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How a senator’s chart became Trump’s disinformation.