aeon-relay // archival data
ascent dossier
dossier // the scale of present wealth
Four containers. No names. Public arithmetic only.
fig 01 // top 20 individual fortunesnames redacted
top 20 individual fortunes$3,713B combined
fig 02 // what one fortune equalsnames redacted
subject 01 net worth$707B
- median US household incomes9,426,667households · 1 year
- median US homes purchased outright1,716,019homes
- public-school teacher salaries10,100,000teachers · 1 year
- mid-size hospitals constructed1,178facilities
fig 03 // time required to spend itnames redacted
spend rate // $1,000,000 every day
- median household ($192k)276 min
- millionaire ($1M)1 days
- decamillionaire ($10M)10 days
- centimillionaire ($100M)100 days
- billionaire ($1B)2.7 yrs
- subject 10 ($147B)403 yrs
- subject 01 ($714B)1,956 yrs
At a million dollars a day — every day, without a single skipped one — a single peak fortune outlasts more than a thousand human lifetimes.
fig 04 // ten people vs. four billionnames redacted
net wealth held // USD trillions
10 individuals
the top of the wealth list
10 people
bottom 50% of humanity
approximately 4,000,000,000 adults
4B people
Ten people · ≈3× the wealth of four billion. Top 100 ≈ $7.41T. Top 500 ≈ $12.52T.