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Honest Accounting with Mona Chalabi

Honest Accounting with Mona Chalabi

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Mona Chalabi is a data journalist who hand-draws beautiful, colorful and often surprising charts that add context, or scale, or feeling. Like her Pulitzer-prize winning work illustrating the barley-imaginable enormity of Jeff Bezos’s wealth compared to the median US household. Mona’s brand-new first book, Ten Lives, closely tracks the finances and fortunes of one person in each of the ten income brackets in the US, over the course of five years. It’s also accidentally part memoir, tracking and disclosing her own situation. She sits down to tell us about how uncomfortable these conversations were and are, how disclosing it all has changed and will change her life, and why she did it anyway.

Further reading:

Ten Lives by Mona Chalabi

9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth

The story of Gaza’s destruction in 100 lives

High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being by Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, 2010

“Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world” A. T. Jebb, L. Tay, E. Diener, S. Oishi, 2018

What Now by Tareq Baconi

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