Politizane recently updated his famous chart of income inequality in the U.S., circa 2013. The bad news is that things have gotten worse in the last 13 years. The good news is that Politizane now has a website showing the data in "scrollytelling" format. If you don't know what scrollytelling is, you'll soon figure it out—and why it's such an effective way of illustrating the problem of billionaires.

You can download a PDF of the graph for printing out, and I did. Here's what it looks like:

It's hard to take in just how much wealth is concentrated here. People work their entire lives and still earn less money than a billionaire makes in minutes while seated on the toilet.

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