Looks Like Largesse, But Actually Smallesse

Here's a thing that was too hard to include in yesterday's BlueSky round-up.

Cartoonist Aubrey Hirsch created a visual explainer of the scale of billionaires' donations that's really helpful. The amounts they give may sound impressive, but it's important to think of the amounts in proportion to their staggering wealth.

A billion dollars — whoa! — to Sergei Brin of Google fame is equivalent to the price of a washing machine. 

Hirsch ends the comic with an inverse punch line: comparing how much the average American gives each year to what that would equal in billionaire dollars. 

Did any of them give that much, relatively? Nope. 

Well, maybe Warren Buffet or Mackenzie Scott — but not the ones she profiles.