I think the cat issue is the most pressing one in that chart.
If it’s meant to be “one small block per dollar” then lots of them are wrong.
E.g. McDonald’s (which is missing its apostrophe on the chart, BTW) should be $27.89 but shows as 23 dark squares. Arby’s, at $34.00, shows as 33. Chili’s ($69.64) shows as 68. Outback ($109.82) shows as 106. WTF?
It is, it is. I know people who spend way more than that for their cats but I’d put our direct cat expenses at about $300.00. The only expenses we have from that list above are:
Dry food (our cat refuses to eat wet food and also won’t eat any people food)
Litter (this is the bulk of the expense though if needed we could go way cheaper on it).
Annual vet check up.
We’ve never paid for a cat sitter when on vacation, and $10 of bonito flakes from the Japanese dollar store lasts the year. We do occasionally buy her toys but her favorite is still the first feather stick we got her 5 years ago (and which hasn’t had any feathers for years).
And why in the world would you pay someone else to clip your cats nails. It isn’t that difficult.
My favorite part of the chart is where he adjusts 50 Cent’s stage name for inflation.
The concept of this chart (like his other massive infographic charts) is cool, but the execution is terrible.
If this were printed and displayed on a wall at eye level, it’d be great. But panning and zooming in a clunky web interface just makes me wish he presented the info linearly. I gave up pretty quickly.
Aye aye. It keeps freezing up my browser window, and when I can get it to cooperate briefly, scrolling through to read it in tiny bits is irritating. So I gave up and instead commented on the insane amounts of money people are apparently spending on their cats.
I can’t open it at all on my computer running an old IE. I can open it really wonky-like on my iPod. So I haven’t seen this at all.
Therefore, I disagree with some of it and give tiny American flags to others.
The cite-site is xkcd money chart information and Cutting Pet Care Costs | ASPCA is the relevant cite.
According to which, food is $115, which is less that kitty litter at $165, which is less than kitty health insurance at $175. Kitty health insurance, according to the footnote, varies in coverage.
My two favorite bits of info (that I’ve gleaned so far):
[ul][li]The 400 richest people in the US have a higher combined net value than the poorest 50%[/li][li]1965 hourly pay average for a production worker: $19.61; 2007 average: $19.71; 1965 CEO pay for the same period: $490.31; 2007 pay: $5,419.97, a more than tenfold increase[/li][/ul]
The system works!
If you don’t mind a 6.7 MB download, there’s a .png image at the sources page.
Pretty good, but not my favorite XKCD mega cartoon.
Movie Narrative Charts
http://xkcd.com/657/
Online Communities 2
http://xkcd.com/802/
Kind of bummed I can’t kind the SDMB on this map.
The only thing that annoys me is the
Worker/CEO pay comparison…
Worker 1965 = $19.61
Worker 2007 = $19.61
CEO 1965 = $490.31
CEO 2007 = $5419.97
:mad:
Yeah, I share your frustration. CEOs were ridiculously underpaid in 1965.
I’m confused about the trillions section. So credit default swaps equaled 66 trillion dollars in 2007? Trillion? With a T? I mean, I get that things got traded back and forth (which is the nature of the game) and that each trade counts towards the total even if it’s the same package…but how can that number even come within 90% of the world’s liquid assets (77 trillion)? How can it be a larger number than the GDP of every country everywhere (63 trillion)?
Therein lies the rub (and crash).