Zer0 Billionaires exists to make extreme wealth and waste legible.

Zer0 Billionaires begins with a strong focus on the United States. That is not because billionaire power is only an American problem. It is because the US remains the single biggest national center of billionaire wealth and influence, and because many of its most powerful oligarchs operate in public view. Future releases will expand coverage beyond the US and deepen the range of people, institutions, and systems examined.

We measure billionaire fortunes and reckless expenditure against what it would take to address the problems most people actually live with: housing, healthcare, education, hunger, and other forms of preventable harm.

The figures on this site are estimates, not certainties. The scale is not.

This site combines live data, source material, and interactive tools to do one thing: show what obscene wealth and waste mean in human terms.

It also starts from a simple premise: once the scale is visible, neutrality becomes harder to defend. Get informed through trusted sources. Pay attention to those willing to confront wealth inequality and concentrated power. Support reforms that reduce both. Do not mistake billionaire mythmaking for public good.