Do not visualize wealth as volume, it vastly understates the disparity. Represent linear things through linear analogies for comparison purposes.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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The video also goes into relative buying power by visualizing how many men could be hired by various rich people throughout the ages on their compounding income alone, how their wealth compares to total GDP of their respective era.