From rags to rices.
A TikTok user created a shocking video that illustrates Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ wealth using grains of rice.
Humphrey Yang, a personal finance guru with 244,900 followers on the video-sharing platform, set out to show exactly how rich the richest man in the world is compared to others.
By Yang’s estimations, one grain of rice represented $100,000, so he first counted out 10,000 grains to show what $1 billion looked like.
Then, the quick-cut clip shows Yang buying a scale and heading to Costco to buy huge bags of the white stuff so he could represent Bezos’ fortune. According to the analogy, Bezos is worth a small mountain of rice, equaling $122 billion.
The shockingly big pile of rice weighs 58 pounds, Yang said, prompting one Twitter user to write: “My jaw dropped. Thank you for this visual perspective!”
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“Eat the rich!” exclaimed many users, appalled by the food experiment’s implications. The TikTok has over 79,000 likes and thousands of comments
The video comes in the wake of Bezos losing some serious rice: Stock market dives caused by the coronavirus panic saw the world’s 10 richest people lose a collective $30 billion. Bezos is projected to have lost $4.8 billion of his riches from the drop, after he settled the most costly divorce in history last summer to the tune of $38 billion.
He still has plenty of coin, though. Yang demonstrated the scope of the tech giant’s wealth by burying an Apple keyboard in the rice mountain. Bezos’ new Beverly HiIls mansion, sold to him by fellow monopoly man David Geffen, was bought for $165 million, or a small handful of Yang’s rice.
One Twitter user quipped: “Jeff if you see this can I have a grain.”