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Where did we go wrong?
By John | September 18, 2008
This morning I noticed that the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is listed #321 on Forbes 400 Richest Americans list. God bless him; however, in light of our recent financial crisis in the United States, I wondered if there was any correlation. I mean, this boy is in his early twenties and he basically went from zero to a billion in less than two years. So I decided to load the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list into IBM’s ManyEyes and play a little. In the end I found that the data had little to do with WEB 2.0 rocks stars. I created a tag cloud based on the count of individual income sources. You can also change the cloud to group by net worth or by location. I would be interested to know if this data stands out to you like it did to me.
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September 18th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
So some guys in new New York made a bunch of money from real estate… What are you trying to say?
Socialized medicine is evil, but socialized capitalism is going to help everyone, just wait and see.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I just thought it was interesting that Hedge Funds, Leveraged Buyouts, and Investments accounted for almost 20% of the individuals on the list.