Visualizing Jeff Bezos' Absurd Wealth, Through A Game Where You Try To Give It All Away
How do you spend 156 billion dollars? As it turns out, it's kind of difficult. Sure, you could hire 100,000 new teachers and pay their salary for four years, but that will only set you back $22.4 billion, leaving you $133.6 billion in thoroughly disposable income and — oh man how are you going to get rid of this?
That's the question posed by creator Kris Ligman's new game "You Are Jeff Bezos," which grants you Bezos' body, company and net worth and lets you choose how to dispose of it. Even if you disagree with the game's view of Bezos (its splash screen casts you/him as, ahem, "monstrous vermin), it's an eye-opening way to understand just how absurdly huge his fortune is — though not quite big enough to solve the student loan debt crisis:
But while the game's narrative starts out fairly straightforward, like any good Choose Your Own Adventure, things start to get out of hand as you work your way through the billions, leading to situations like… this?
We won't spoil the rest, but it's worth diving down the rabbit hole and learning just how many problems you could fix with a couple hundred million here and a couple hundred million there. We're just saying, Jeff.
