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American Wealth, Sliced Up

▲ 55 points 86 comments by amai 5w ago HN discussion ↗

Pangram verdict · v3.3

We believe that this document is fully human-written

2 %

AI likelihood · overall

Human
100% human-written 0% AI-generated
SEGMENTS · HUMAN 1 of 1
SEGMENTS · AI 0 of 1
WORD COUNT 163
PEAK AI % 2% · §1
Analyzed
Jun 4
backend: pangram/v3.3
Segments scanned
1 windows
avg 163 words each
Distribution
100 / 0%
human / AI fraction
Verdict
Human
Pangram v3.3

Article text · 163 words · 1 segments analyzed

Human AI-generated
§1 Human · 2%

posted May 27 @ 04:20 PM by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

Using the Federal Reserve’s Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 data, Ryan Thorpe imagines a pizza party with 100 guests and 100 slices of pizza as a stand-in for the United States: We’re having a pizza party with 100 guests! Let’s divvy up the slices the way wealth is divided among American households:• 1 person gets 30 slices• 9 people get 3.7 slices each• 40 people get 0.75 slices each• 50 people get 0.05 slices eachDig in! But watch out for “those people” trying to steal your 0.05. I checked the math and it’s not quite 100 slices…it’s ~96.1 I whipped up a pizza pie chart (embedded above) so you can visualize how much each person gets. Is this the kind of party we Americans want to attend on a daily basis? I imagine Thorpe rounded off some numbers for clarity. ↩

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