Context Setting Remember this tweet from Part 1? Elon Musk’s wealth: 2020: $24.6 billion 2021: $151 billion Jeff Bezos’ wealth: 2020: $113 billion 2021: $177 billion Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth: 2020: $54.7 billion 2021: $97 billion Bill Gates’ wealth: 2020: $98 billion 2021: $124 billion Tax the damn rich. — Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) May 1, 2021 I’m going to a quick verification of these numbers. Partly because verification is important, and partly because it’s important to start finding resources to reference for similar exercises.

This is part 1 of a series about how much money is needed, really, to live in the United States. There will be a TOC to help with going between the posts as they go live. The Impetus I was Doom Scrolling, as you do in a pandemic, I encountered a tweet about some of the US billionaires: Elon Musk’s wealth: 2020: $24.6 billion 2021: $151 billion Jeff Bezos’ wealth: 2020: $113 billion