The Obscene Graph
Wealth in America, drawn to a scale where the median household is under an inch tall on the home-printer version and the average top-1% household is taller than your ceiling. It’s free. Print it. Hang it somewhere people will have to look up.
The poster (high-res)
The full-color designed graph from the video, with every “Cost of Greed” callout. Best for print shops and wide-format plotters.
Download the poster PDFDIY: tape-together pages (Letter)
Print on any home or school printer, trim, and tape the pages end to end, bottom to top.
Download Letter PDFDIY: tape-together pages (A4)
The same graph laid out for A4 paper, for our friends outside the U.S.
Download A4 PDFSingle banner (24 in wide)
One long page, sized for vinyl banner and roll-paper printers. Ask your local print shop for a quote; tell them it’s for a good cause.
Download banner PDFHow to hang the DIY version
- Print every page at 100% / “Actual size”. Do not use “Fit to page,” or the pages won’t line up.
- Trim each page along the dashed CUT line at its bottom edge. (Leave page 1 untrimmed.)
- Start with page 1 at the floor. It has $0, the debt line, and everyone up to the median.
- Lay page 2 over the top margin of page 1 so its cut edge sits exactly on page 1’s red ALIGN line. Tape. Repeat, counting upward.
- Keep going. You will run out of wall before you run out of graph. That’s the point.
- Running out of wall? Go around the ceiling. Or tape it up a stairwell, a flagpole, the outside of a building.
The #ObsceneGraph challenge
Print it. Hang it. Take a photo of the bottom 99% next to the person holding the top of the 1%.
Post it with #ObsceneGraph and tag Politizane. Tallest install wins bragging rights.