The "L" curve, an income distribution graph..

[Fumesucker]

http://www.lcurve.org/

The US population is represented along the length of the football field, arranged in order of income.

Median US family income (the family at the 50 yard line) is ~$40,000 (a stack of $100 bills 1.6 inches high.)

--The family on the 95 yard line earns about $100,000 per year, a stack of $100 bills about 4 inches high.

--At the 99 yard line the income is about $300,000, a stack of $100 bills about a foot high.

--The curve reaches $1 million (a 40 inch high stack of $100 bills) one foot from the goal line.

--From there it keeps going up...it goes up 50 km (~30 miles) on this scale!

[The Magistrate]

1. An Excellent Piece, Sir: thank You For Sharing It

[Fumesucker]

2. It does sort of put things in perspective, eh? n/t

[The Magistrate]

5. That It Does, Sir, And In a way People Need Badly To Comprehend

[Selatius]

3. The only complaint is that the site should update those statistics.

Beyond that, it illustrates the true wealth distribution in the US.

[Fumesucker]

6. It does have a little disclaimer..

(Actually, these percentages, true a decade ago, are now out of date. The top one percent are now estimated to own between forty and fifty percent of the nation's wealth, more than the combined wealth of the bottom 95%.)

[slipslidingaway]

4. Thanks K&R n/t

[pinto]

7. Thanks for the post. Sometimes a good graphic speaks volumes.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

8. That's a great website!

Thanks for showing it to us! :)

[Fumesucker]

9. Kick for the Weekend Krewe n/t

[ThomWV]

10. It is a grotesquely ignorant nation that needs a sports analogy to understand its income inequality

If we bothered to teach jack shit in schools or if our news organizations informed the people this would not be necessary.

[Fumesucker]

11. You say that like it's a bad thing..

How would our corporate overlords pull the wool so far over our eyes if we were not grotesquely ignorant?

Why do you hate America?

[tomp]

12. those are the people whose taxes should be raised astronomically.

taxes or pitchforks.