Diary (September 10, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday September 10, 2020.

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Diary

Visual Capitalist's graph of the world's 25 richest families includes only those that inherited their wealth (not "self-made" centi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates).

• Ranked: The World’s Richest Families in 2020

Commentary

"The Saudi one is grossly inaccurate. They actually own the whole freaking country-- its Saudi Arabia, like if the US was the United States of Walmart or Koch or something. Basically Trump’s wet dream."

—rob_bray

• https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/this-graph-of-the-worlds-25-richest-families-who-are-collectively-worth-1-4-trillion/179883/11

"You know you’ve failed as a graph when they need to include a regular old table with the same information right under it."

—Ceran_Swicegood

• https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/this-graph-of-the-worlds-25-richest-families-who-are-collectively-worth-1-4-trillion/179883/13

"People have been exaggerating the Rothschilds’ wealth for a long, long time. While rich, they are nowhere near that wealthy."

—LurksNoMore

• https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/this-graph-of-the-worlds-25-richest-families-who-are-collectively-worth-1-4-trillion/179883/22

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles