All Billionaires Are Bastards

The world's billionaires, in one frame

3,428 billionaires worldwide. $20.1 trillion combined. A record set in March 2026 — up $4T in one year, driven by AI, market run-ups, and friendlier fiscal policies. (Forbes 2026). The US alone has 989 of them. — charted here, sized by net worth. The single green dot is what a US median worker earns in one year — to scale.

$839B Musk

vs.

$70K US median worker · /yr

= 12,000,000×

$20.1T total billionaire wealth — bigger than every country's GDP except the US, China, Germany, and Japan.

"How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?" — five billionaires asked Douglas Rushkoff, 2018. Survival of the Richest.

What this is

The richest 25 Americans paid an effective income tax rate of 3.4% on $401 billion of wealth growth (2014–2018). Warren Buffett's was 0.1%. The same people building the system that produces this gap are simultaneously buying tickets out of it — Mark Zuckerberg has a 5,000-square-foot bunker in Hawaii; Peter Thiel has a 477-acre Wanaka estate and New Zealand citizenship granted after 12 days in the country; Larry Ellison owns 98% of an island.

The world's billionaires, in one frame

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What this is

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