What Looks A Lot Like The Sun Next To The Earth And The Moon?

[Playinghardball]

The annual pay of the 1% as compared to the rest of us.

[Mnemosyne]

1. Says it all. K&R n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. kick

[Nye Bevan]

3. I think whoever did this is mathematically challenged.

The $11.4mm CEO pay is about 60 times the US Congressman Pay. So the diameter of the CEO pay circle should be about 7.7 times that of the US Congressman circle. That circle would easily fit on the page.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I think they were probably using diameters.

What you suggested is a lot more visually honest, though.

[dreamnightwind]

5. Yes, this graphic is just plain wrong!

Unbelievable. Why do people do such things? It would hold up fine if they represented it correctly. Since they're using a planetary model, I would think the correct way would be 2-dimensional images of spheres whose volumes correspond to the relative incomes they're being used to represent.