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That graph is too old or has the wrong information. Apple is more than 2 trillion today and Bitcoin is about 500+ billion right now.

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Everyone knows data is not beautiful when you visualize scalars using area instead of length.

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I’m pretty sure it’s by volume, which is even worse

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I like it. you can visualize sizes with 3 orders of magnitude between them without one being microscopic.

What makes this graph shitty, is that the spheres don’t look very 3D.

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I respectfully disagree. If you want to compare orders of magnitude, you should use a logarithmic scale.

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Wait like 3D volume? 😬 I was looking at it completely wrong

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58 points

What a terrible visualization

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A graph of overlapping 3D-spheres? That’s new.

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I don’t think they are even to scale either so the artwork is pointless

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It could be volumetrically to scale, which to say at the least is disgusting for a 2D graph

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🤢 an invisible exponentially compressed y-axis

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I get the feeling that having nearly all money in stock markets is not the best idea. I don’t know why that would be the case, but it seems very pyramid scheme like.

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Nah, it’s cool and normal. What could possibly go wrong? Should anything try to go wrong, the great invisible hand will stop it!

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As someone with tens of thousands invested into index funds: The average growth in the stock market for the past few hundred years has been about 7% a year, so while I’m undecided on the fact wether it can grow infinitely, what ever that means, I’m pretty certain it’ll keep doing so throught my lifetime, so I consider it relatively safe place to put my money into. Atleast not less safe than most of the alternatives. Also, in the event of total stock market crash where everything effectively goes permanently to zero, then something so big is going on, that this is probably the least of anyone’s problems and it doesn’t matter where your money is unless it’s in food and water.

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