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Michael Korostoff
Personal blog · mkorostoff.github.iodatadesign
Michael Korostoff's personal blog at mkorostoff.github.io covers data and design. Since 2020, 53 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “Wealth Shown to Scale”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Wealth Shown to Scale35 people · 40 mentions · first linked 2020-04-27
- Incarceration in Real Numbers10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2020-10-01
- Wealth Shown to Scale4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-12-27
- The faces on this page do not and have never existed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-10
What Hacker News says?
In the context of our society and with "lots" meaning billions - yes it is immoral. I'm sure we've all seen a number of graphics/chats/whatever trying to show wealth inequality, but this is the best one I've come across. Would recommend giving it a look and then asking yourself if having a lot of money isn't immoral. https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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on “Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private”Submitted Wealth Shown to Scale as a story · 107 points
HN discussionWith his wealth he doesn’t need to work anymore since a long time. See e.g. here: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ In my opinion there is hardly a justification or a _need_ for an individual to own billions. But I think we haven’t found a good way to redistribute money, apart from billionaires self-pledging to give their wealth away.
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on “Email from Jeff Bezos to employees”Submitted Wealth Inequalities Shown to the Scale as a story · 101 points
HN discussionOn this subject, I was blown away by this a week ago: https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
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on “My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison”Submitted Wealth Shown to Scale as a story · 6 points
HN discussion< https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ > People taking in $200k are not in any sense "very, very wealthy", except from a third-world viewpoint. $200k in today's dollars approaches what would have been called "middle class" a few decades ago, when there was one. Now you are only low, below $300k, and high, above $1M, with very few left between. (In countries with regular health care and education, life costs…
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on “Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming”Submitted Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMaybe you were not aware that GTA has taken in a billion dollars? Or don't know what that number means? Most people don't: < https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ >
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on “Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming”Submitted Wealth Shown to Scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>fairer way to help people than trying to do it with other people’s wealth That "other people's wealth" you're talking about is everyone's wealth. Billionaires stole the profits of our work from us, and they didn't do it fairly. I feel you underestimate how much a billion dollars is. https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ Nobody in history has ever worked hard enough to earn a billion dollars fairly. It's craz…
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on “El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender”Submitted Incarceration in Real Numbers: An infographic that scrolls with text as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe discussion of billionaires building "CERNs" came out of a discussion I was having with a friend as a way to quantify how rich these people are in terms more understandable. Graphics like pixel wealth[0] just show scale, but doesn't put things in perspective. But a Forbes analysis estimates the cost of finding the Higgs at around $14bn (rounding up)[1]. I also tried using Super Computers, but at around $300m a pi…
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on “ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly”Submitted Wealth To Scale 2021: A comparison of American households to billionaires as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ is a great visualization of just how wealthy one particular billionaire is. We're all closer to being millionaires than Jeff Bezos.
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on “Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order”Submitted Incarceration in Real Numbers as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Every single person in America could be lifted above the poverty line with a one-time cash subsidy of around $10,000 per impoverished family (and about $7,000 for impoverished individuals). The total cost would be $170 billion, a little under 5% of the wealth currently controlled by 400 individuals. From [Wealth, shown to scale]( https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ )
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on “Not an Amazon Problem”Submitted Incarceration in Real Numbers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is just money - it gets worse: https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
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on “Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part IV”Submitted The faces on this page do not and have never existed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt'd be good to consider what percentage of the jail/prison population is actually incarcerated for serious crimes. https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
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on “When the prison banned board games, we played chess in our minds”Submitted Wealth, Shown to Scale (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> The ultra rich/wealthy are a red herring, there’s only a few 10k of them of them. Only 614 people are billionaires. Have a look at what inconveniencing just 400 of them would do (they would still be billionaire after) https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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on “Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking [pdf]”Submitted Incarceration in Real Numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTop 5% of earners in the US are making $340k USD[0]. Is it unreasonable for people working at OpenAI to get 2-3x that? If you want to be angry at the unbalanced concentration of wealth, take a look at Bezos[1]. [0] https://www.unbiased.com/discover/banking/how-much-income-pu... [1] https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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on “OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation”Submitted Incarceration in Real Numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI mostly agree, and certainly a list of numbers or maybe a log plot would be better if the goal was communicating the raw data. Certainly the click-about jumpy interface is pretty janky. However there’s one thing I think this does better than a list of numbers would: Most people (me included) have a hard time getting an intuitive feel for things like just how much smaller 1ns is compared to 1ms or truly how much a b…
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on “Latency numbers every programmer should know”Submitted Incarceration in Real Numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThese numbers truely are large. the best visualization I've seen for that is https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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on “Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading”Submitted 100k Faces as a story · 2 points
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