Observed arrival · 2026-08-22
Watch the Gap, Measured in Pixels
An interactive scroll through American wealth and public spending, using one pixel to represent one million dollars.
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Why it surfaced
The page makes inequality physically legible: a typical family's entire $192,900 in wealth is only 0.19 of a pixel, while Elon Musk's stated $847 billion fortune becomes a 735-foot descent. Source links accompany the comparisons, turning a familiar argument into an unusually memorable piece of data storytelling.
An interactive scroll through American wealth and public spending, using one pixel to represent one million dollars.
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
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●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade
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