Well said!
I honestly believe at least part of the challenge is our collective capacity to understand what "rich" really means. There is, sadly, a large portion of the population for whom $1000 in a given month would represent a make or break proposition (whether that be an unexpected medical bill, a surprise tax return, etc). If you've spent your life immersed in more or less that state of financial well being, is it possible to really fathom what it would be like to have $1M in wealth? To us more comfortable middle class types, especially those living in major metro areas (i.e. high home prices), $1M in wealth isn't even all that much anymore, but what about $10M? $100M? $1B?
You reach a certain point where, for the vast majority of the population - even the relatively comfortable - it's funny money. Yeah, sure, you can conceptualize the number on a superficial level and do some idle fantasizing about what you'd do if you were that rich (where you'd live, your fleet of super cars, what charities you'd support, etc), but even that kind of idle fantasizing is a far cry from *really* having your brain around how much money the super wealthy have.
I like this visualization. At some point, we're going to have to get over our sympathy (?) for the mega rich. I have, that's for sure.
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
mkorostoff.github.io