Bill Gates just surpassed Jeff Bezos as the richest person on Earth, with a net worth of $110 billion.
I struggled to imagine this huge number, so I animated some bar graphs that put it in proportion with other points of reference. The scale is quite stark. pic.twitter.com/uteU9h72fC
— objet betty a (@betty__cam) November 19, 2019
As the $55 million needed to repair Flint’s water system and the $650 million Americans gather for medical bills on GoFundMe each year appear in the graphic the bar signifying Gates’s $110 billion is still too tall to fully fit in the animation.