Chrissy's Share: What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?

From Chrissy: Has anyone else seen this website? It was created as a final thesis project by William Mahoney Luckman at CUNY Graduate Center. He uses data visualization to help visitor's more viscerally process just how massive a billion dollar is. I admit, it stunned me. I hadn't quite wrapped my head around the abstract quantity of money a billionaire wielded, and with this new perspective, I cannot figure out why anyone would need this much money. As if to make my point, he shows at the bottom of the webpage the buying power of that amount - spoiler alert, the buying power of a billion dollars is absurd. I'm curious whether this data visualization similarly affected anyone else, and if so how?  

https://whatdoesonebilliondollarslooklike.website/