Wealth Visualizations

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Money equals power—and most of it is controlled by governments and the ultra-wealthy.

It's nearly impossible to conceptualize a billion dollars—let alone a trillion dollars—so I put it all in context.

My first video focused on the staggering $62.8 billion fortune of then-presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. It was released the night of his first presidential debate and quickly went viral on Twitter, with write-ups in Marketwatch, Fast Company and others.

I followed up with videos about massive gains on the balance sheets of America's billionaires during the first several months of the pandemic (over $600 billion) and the ballooning student debt that became a flashpoint in the 2020 Democratic primary ($1.7 trillion at the time.)

Read the accompanying articles at Mother Jones here, here, and here.


Publisher: Mother Jones
Release: 2020