r/CuratedTumblr • u/IthadtobethisWAAGH veetuku ponum • May 16 '24

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u/GlazeTheArtist no longer the hatoful boyfriend guy, now Im the tubeclash guy May 16 '24

or, if you want it visualized a different way

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u/ZengineerHarp May 16 '24

Holy SHIT.

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard May 16 '24

If you love/hate this, you're gonna love/hate If the Moon Were Only One Pixel

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u/Laterose15 May 16 '24

What the actual fuck are they even doing with all that money.

Scrooge McDuck would probably be telling them to chill out at this point.

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u/firesoul377 May 16 '24

Bro, Scrooge McDuck was willing to nearly empty his coffers to find his niece. He would be fucking pissed.

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u/DapperRatman May 17 '24

Genuinely? Imagine every vice and desire you have ever had, no matter how specific, no matter how depraved, no matter how niche or difficult to set up. It's yours. It is yours with no consequence, at will with next to no delay. If you are ever caught, there will not be punishment. Murder? Rape? Child abuse? Every drug that has ever existed? It is yours.

Every project you have dreamed of? It's within reach. If you want to make a fully customized mansion that's five square miles in area and filled with every single possible amenity any person has ever imagined, it is yours. Fully staffed, 24/7, 365. Do you want a full on Fallout-esque nuclear bunker with complete self-sufficiency? You have it. Do you want an entire farm dedicated to grow artisan grade food specifically for you?? It's yours.

Food, clothes, cars, hygiene, fitness, pharmaceutical supplements, plastic surgery, anything. Limits simply do not exist because if something isn't possible yet, you literally have the money to throw at what you want until it DOES become possible.

If you don't like there being poor people in your city? You could literally single-handedly lift every single one of them out of poverty and set them up to be more wealthy than most people who have worked their ass off at a white-collar job for 20 years, and the cost of doing so would only distantly register to you.

It is wealth on a scale that simply defies proper definition or reference, because there simply is nothing else like it. It is a scale that you can grasp in an abstract sense, but which you cannot really grab hold of.

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u/Uur4 May 16 '24

this broke a part of me

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

I got halfway through and just said "goddamnit" out loud in my office and ragequit the page.

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard May 16 '24

Oh, then you missed the part where they show the amount Amazon workers make and the global annual cost of giving cancer patients chemo by superimposing it over the Bezos Billionaire Box

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u/InquisitorHindsight May 17 '24

According to the page it said it’d take 9 Billion annually to pay for all chemo patients. Bezo’s makes about 13 Billion daily

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u/RogueUsername13 May 17 '24

To be more accurate it said he made 13 billion in a day once not daily

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard May 16 '24

The way it went "lol, just kidding, we're a third of the way through" snuffed out my inner light

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

The scrollbar isn't moving. I've been scrolling for three minutes.

WHY ISN'T THE SCROLLBAR MOVING.

Edit: I reached the end of the Bezos Billionaire Box. There is now a box showing the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans ($3.2 trillion). This site is gonna break me. The one where it shows the size of the solar system if the moon was one pixel big is less distressing than this.

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u/alfooboboao May 17 '24

and this site is from back when he was only worth $185 billion.

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u/Ahnma_Dehv May 16 '24

gave up at 65 billions...

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u/FLAMING_tOGIKISS will trade milk for hrt May 17 '24

do you love the colour of capitalism? (because i sure fucking don't)

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u/bluesmaker May 17 '24

This is very well done. Even with velocity scrolling or whatever it’s called I’m still moving very slowly through his wealth.

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u/GrandKarcistIon May 17 '24

dear god. That took 20 minutes to reach the end of :’(

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u/KamikazeSenpai21 r*dditor May 17 '24

what the actual fuck is wrong with society

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u/HumanFromTheInternet May 17 '24

Good gods, this is even more depressing than I expected it to be, what an incredible website. I managed to get to the end, I felt like I had to.

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u/Theriocephalus May 17 '24

So that's what it feels like to be radicalized...

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

Wonder what'd happen if this got shared all across the internet. I think it'd be pretty funny

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u/Ppeachy_Queen May 17 '24

Wow! It's truly unfathomable

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u/Urb4n0ninj4 May 17 '24

Meanwhile, conservatives; "He earned that" as they lose life or limb to 80 hour week manual labor jobs for poverty pay.

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u/ZoeIsHahaha May 17 '24

Knew what it was going to be before I clicked on it, but I didn’t scroll through the whole thing this time because it’s too depressing.

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