Owing to the coronavirus crisis around the world, national economies have plummeted, taking with them several casualties in the form of sector-wide paycuts, layoffs and thousands of sinking investments - yet one man seems to be smiling all the way to the bank. Unsurprisingly, itâs none other than Amazon CEO and worldâs richest man, Jeff Bezos - who came out 24 billion dollars richer through the pandemic, putting his net worth at a staggering $143.1 billion. Thatâs 1,09,47,15,00,00,000.00 rupees - over ten trillion.

With numbers that high, itâs hard to even visualise the sheer amount of wealth. Not much of a problem for Bezos apparently, who splurged on a 735 Crore NYC apartment the other day, but even that Titanic amount is a measly 0.067% of his savings.

Perhaps in the spirit of educating the public, 32-year old content creator and entrepreneur Humphrey Yang decided to serve up some perspective on the billionaireâs ridiculous wealth - using rice as a way to better visualise just how ridiculously wealthy Bezos is, taking numbers and news headlines away from the equation.

He first began by setting up the stage - choosing $100,000 as the net worth of a single grain of rice, and then showing us how quickly things scale up as we get richer.

© Humphrey Yang

Thereâs no two ways about it - that, my friends, is a shit-ton of money. To put things into perspective, Humphrey tosses in three grains - that tiny sliver of the pile amounts to Lamborghini - with $300,000, you can comfortably snag yourself a shiny new Huracan Performante.

Insert: Lamborghini+Huracan (Humphrey Yang/Automobili Lamborghini)

Well, after getting that Lamborghini, youâre going to need a place to keep it. How does a $5 million house in California sound? Hereâs what it looks like, converted to rice.

© Humphrey Yang

But the real kicker is demonstrating just how much Bezos has got in the back. While these figures are slightly outdated - Bezos did profit immensely from the lockdown after all - hereâs what his earlier net worth of $122 billion would look like.

© Humphrey Yang

It took the YouTuber hours upon hours of counting two entire sacks of rice totalling over 26 kilos to calculate it perfectly. His patience proves a massive point regarding the overwhelming amount of wealth possessed by the worldâs top 0.1% - itâs almost uncountable.

Check the video out for yourself, above. Meanwhile, others went on social media to express their own metrics - usually with a combination of shock and awe.

Rice. Part two: Jeff Bezos net worth represented visually by rice. pic.twitter.com/kYIoyxLgMW

Others provided some realistic ground to the situation.

No one ever makes a billion dollars. You only take a billion dollars. He stole that money from every worker he refuses to pay a living wage or city he scammed out of tax revenue out of or small business he ran into the ground through predatory market manipulation.

No matter which way you look at it, itâs a lot of rice. Thankfully, Humphreyâs made sure it goes unwasted and is delivered to local families - just imagine how the world could change if Bezos did the same with his wealth.

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